New Delhi, Sept. 30 -- The Supreme Court on Wednesday sought to defuse a controversy over the abrupt deletion of contempt petitions concerning the deputation of Indian Police Service (IPS) officers to Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) from the cause list of a bench headed by Justice Ujjal Bhuyan, with Justice Manoj Misra observing that "sometimes too much heat is generated out of nothing."

The special bench was hearing an explanation from the registry on why the contempt matters, which had been judicially directed to be listed before Justice Bhuyan's bench on September 30, were dropped from the cause list a day ago and were later placed before the special bench along with a separate batch challenging a new law governing IPS deputations...