Tribune News Service
Jupinderjit Singh
Chandigarh, April 3
It has been nearly three weeks for the reason that Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) had requested the Punjab Government via Chief Secretary VK Janjua why it had not despatched a panel of eligible officers to the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) relating to the appointment of a daily Director General of Police (DGP).
Gaurav Yadav has been the officiating DGP for 9 months now. The Supreme Court had dominated {that a} state may have an officiating DGP for a most six months.
Yadav was posted because the DGP on July 5 final 12 months rather than VK Bhawra. He took over at a time when the police had been going through criticism for Sidhu Moosewala’s killing.
A senior authorities functionary stated no reply had been despatched to the MHA but.
According to sources, the federal government doesn’t intend to ship the panel because the officiating DGP, who’s backed by CM Bhagwant Mann and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, won’t characteristic among the many prime three officers on the idea of seniority.
He is at the moment ranked ninth on the seniority listing of IPS officers of the state. A 1992-batch officer, his batchmates Sharad Satya Chauhan and Hapreet Singh Sidhu are senior to him. Other officers senior to him are R&AW Chief Samant Kumar Goel (1984 batch, on extension until June 2023), NIA DG Dinkar Gupta (1987), Parag Jain (1989), Bhawra, (1987), Prabodh Kumar (1988), and Sanjeev Kalra (1989).
There is a distant chance that Yadav’s title may characteristic within the prime three senior officers, if all these senior to him decline to take the publish or will not be included. Among the senior officers, Chauhan may face motion within the case of PM Narendra Modi’s safety breach final 12 months.
The delay in sending a panel of officers can be in violation of the 2018 Supreme Court order, which requested the states to ship the panel to the UPSC. Under the foundations, a state can have an officiating DGP for six months solely. The state can ship as many names of eligible officers. The UPSC shortlists three on the idea of seniority, advantage and pending tenure. The state is free to decide on anybody from the three who’ve been shortlisted.
