SC issues notices to 8 states on appointment of acting DGPs

The study had said portion Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, UP and Punjab person had specified impermanent DGPs for much than a year, Uttarakhand, Odisha and West Bengal had them for months. Odisha has since appointed 1990-batch IPS serviceman Y B Khurania arsenic regular DGP and helium took complaint successful August. Jharkhand, which past had a regular DGP, appointed an acting DGP successful July.

These appointments are typically made by handing implicit the further complaint of the constabulary chief’s station to a DG fertile serviceman successful the authorities holding immoderate different responsibility. The apex tribunal has intelligibly said nary impermanent oregon advertisement hoc appointments of constabulary chiefs indispensable beryllium made, barring exceptional circumstances. UPSC guidelines accidental states indispensable nonstop a database of eligible officers, with astatine slightest 3 senior-most officers, to the Commission six months earlier the status of the incumbent DGP.

Following The Indian Express report, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) had sent a missive to each states to comply with SC guidelines connected DGP appointments. The SC issued notices to the states and centre portion considering a petition filed by lawyer Savitri Pandey. The petition makes a owed notation of the Indian Express report.

“It is precise indispensable for businesslike attraction of instrumentality and bid that regular DGs are appointed. The inclination of appointing impermanent DGs has thrown instrumentality and bid successful assorted states disconnected the rails beryllium it UP oregon West Bengal. This inclination is successful usurpation of not lone the Prakash Singh judgement but besides assorted consequent SC orders,” Pandey told The Indian Express.

Pandey’s petition has prayed for issuance of directions to the acrophobic states and the Centre for compliance with the Prakash Singh judgment; issuance of absorption to the defaulting states that they indispensable travel SC directions and UPSC guidelines connected assignment of regular DGPs with a tenure of 2 years; and issuance of further directions to the defaulting states not to name immoderate ‘acting DGP’.

Sources said precocious Uttarakhand and Jharkhand person sent a sheet of 3 names to the UPSC for assignment arsenic regular DGPs. Final appointment, however, is yet to beryllium made.

The lawsuit of UP is special. It has had 3 “acting DGPs” successful succession since May, 2022. In January, the authorities got its 4th DGP successful Prashant Kumar. After removing past DGP, 1987-batch IPS serviceman Mukul Goel, for “lack of involvement towards work”, the authorities authorities appointed 1988 batch IPS serviceman Devendra Singh Chauhan arsenic acting DG. Following his status connected March 31, 2022, 1988 batch IPS serviceman Raj Kumar Vishwakarma was made acting DG. Then connected May 31, upon retirement, Vishwakarma was replaced by Vijay Kumar arsenic acting DG. Vijay Kumar had superseded his elder Anand Kumar, and retired connected January 31.