India, June 12 -- The Supreme Court urged IPS officer D Roopa Moudgil and IAS officer Rohini Sindhuri to resolve their long-running dispute through mediation, Bar and Bench reported on Friday.

Observing that the matter could be settled amicably, a Bench of Justices Satish Chandra Sharma and Sanjeev Sachdeva appointed former Supreme Court judge Justice Kurian Joseph as mediator to facilitate talks between the two officers.

The court's intervention comes more than three years after a public fallout between the two senior Karnataka officers erupted over a series of Facebook posts, triggering defamation cases, demands for Rs.1 crore in damages, and repeated scrutiny by the country's highest court.

The origins of the dispute date back to Fe...