The Supreme Court sought the Tamil Nadu government's response on Friday on a plea seeking contempt action for the non-compliance of its earlier orders and appointing an acting director general of police (DGP) in the state.

A bench of Chief Justice B R Gavai and Justice K Vinod Chandran issued a notice to the Tamil Nadu government and sought its reply on the contempt plea filed by Kishore Krishnaswamy in three weeks.

Appearing in the matter for the petitioner, advocate Prashant Bhushan said the court passed an order in another matter on September 8, directing the state to forthwith appoint a regular DGP from the recommendations made by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC).

He said the state government had submitted at the time that a panel of names was given to the UPSC by hand on

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