Centre extends tenure of Delhi chief secretary by 6 months after SC’s nod | India News

NEW DELHI: In a blow to the Delhi government, the Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed the Centre to go ahead with its decision to grant a six-month extension to Delhi chief secretary Naresh Kumar, turning down AAP dispensation’s plea against prolonging the tenure of the key bureaucrat and, also, for a say in the choice of his replacement.

A bench of Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra said the chief secretary is tasked with significant functional responsibilities and overall administrative control and supervision over subjects, including land, law & order and police, which lie outside the legislative domain and executive powers of the Delhi government and held that the function of the top bureaucrat could not be bifurcated.