UPSC calls for revised list of DGP candidates

Barely three days earlier than the essential assembly scheduled in New Delhi to finalise the panel of officers for appointment as Director-General of Police/head of police drive, the Union Public Service Commission has known as for a revised list of eligible officers from the Tamil Nadu Government.

Tamil Nadu DGP J.K. Tripathy is retiring on June 30.

While the names of seven qualifying DGP rank officers belonging to 1987 to 1989 batches of IPS was initially despatched for empanelment, prime sources within the police headquarters right here mentioned a revised list, together with 9 ADGP rank officers of the 1990 and 1991 batches, has been despatched to the UPSC.

The UPSC follows a prescribed format, pointers of the Supreme Court within the Prakash Singh case and a 360-degree evaluation to shortlist three or 5 names to be despatched to the State governments for selecting one as head of the police drive. The Supreme Court had mounted a minimal residual service of six months for consideration of appointment to the highest put up.

C. Sylendra Babu belonging to the 1987 batch is the senior most IPS officer within the list adopted by Karan Singha of the identical batch. The third senior most officer is Sanjay Arora of the 1988 batch who’s on central deputation and was on Wednesday posted as Special DGP, Central Reserve Police Force.

Others within the batch are Sunil Kumar Singh and P. Kandaswamy.

While the 1989 batch has Md. Shakeel Akhter and Braj Kishore Ravi, the recent list despatched to the UPSC includes Shankar Jiwal, A.K. Viswanathan, Abash Kumar, T.V. Ravichandran (on central deputation), Seema Agrawal within the 1990 batch and Amraesh Pujari, M. Ravi, K. Jayanth Murali and Karuna Sagar of the 1991 batch. All these officers have the qualifying service of 30 years in IPS and are serving within the rank of DGP and ADGPs.

Going by the Supreme Court ruling within the Prakash Singh case, an officer posted as DGP/head of police drive in a State will maintain workplace for a minimal two years irrespective of the date of superannuation.

Though the UPSC cleared 5 names in 2017 and three names in 2019, the State authorities can insist on 5 names, going by provisions beneath the Tamil Nadu Police Establishment Act, sources mentioned and added that the State Government can decide anyone from the list despatched by the UPSC to move the police drive.