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BENGALURU: The second senior-most Indian\n Police Service (IPS) officer in Karnataka, Director General of Police \nMN Reddi, who is presently Chief of Fire & Emergency Services, Home \nGuards, Civil Defence & State Disaster Response Force (SDRF), on \nTuesday approached the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) challenging\n the appointment of the incumbent Director General & Inspector \nGeneral of Police Neelamani N Raju on the ground that the state \ngovernment did not follow the Supreme Court guidelines on police reforms\n while appointing her as the head of police force in 2017. Neelamani is \nthe senior-most IPS officer of the 1983 batch.
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\nBased on Reddi\u2019s affidavit, the CAT has issued notices to the state and \ncentral governments, asking them to file rejoinders within a fortnight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In his affidavit, Reddi, an IPS officer \nof 1984 batch, who is set to retire on January 31, 2020, has pointed out\n the alleged lacuna in the appointment of Neelamani Raju as DG&IGP \nand also claimed his candidature for the post, based on a March 2019 \nSupreme Court order, which stated that officers who have a minimum of \nsix months tenure left in service should be considered for the post of \nDGP&IGP.
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\nThe SC order in March was a review of its July 2018 order in which it \nhad asked the states and Union Territories to not appoint pliable \nofficers as acting DGPs and regularise their appointment as DGP on the \nday of their retirement, thereby giving them a two-year tenure past \ntheir superannuation. The court had also asked the states and UTs to \nsend a list of senior-most IPS officers to the Union Public Service \nCommission (UPSC) at least three months prior to the date of retirement \nof the incumbent DGP and had directed the Commission to consider \nofficers on the basis of their merit and those \u201cwho have got clear two \nyears of service\u201d for appointment as DGPs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Quoting the apex court\u2019s judgment in the\n 2006 Prakash Singh vs Union of India on police reforms, Reddi, in his \naffidavit before the CAT, has submitted that the state government, while\n appointing Neelamani Raju as DG&IGP, did not send the names of the \nthree senior-most IPS officers who were eligible for consideration by \nUPSC.<\/ins><\/p>\n\n\n\n Neelamani Raju was appointed DG&IGP \non November 1, 2017 after the superannuation of Rupak Kumar Dutta as per\n the Karnataka Police Act, 1963, which was amended in 2012. One of the \nclauses in the amended Act was regarding the appointment of the \nDG&IGP, as per which the police chief was to be appointed by a \ncommittee headed by the Chief Minister comprising of the Home Minister, \nthe Deputy Chief Minister and the Leader of the Opposition Party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n IPS officers, on condition of anonymity, have questioned Reddi\u2019s move. \u201cThe court orders cannot be implemented with retrospective effect. Neelamani Raju was appointed in 2017 as per the KP Amendment Act and the Supreme Court order regarding the procedure of empanelment by the UPSC was reaffirmed in January 2019. Also, there is no vacancy in the post of DG&IGP in Karnataka,\u201d they remarked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: newindianexpress.com BENGALURU: The second senior-most Indian Police Service (IPS) officer in Karnataka, Director General of Police MN Reddi, who is…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":368,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[354,3,410,351],"tags":[477,480,478,264,479,481,482],"class_list":["post-367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cat","category-karnataka","category-union-public-service-commission","category-upsc","tag-bengaluru","tag-cat","tag-ips","tag-karnataka","tag-sdrf","tag-supreme-court","tag-upsc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gurukulgalaxy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gurukulgalaxy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gurukulgalaxy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gurukulgalaxy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gurukulgalaxy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gurukulgalaxy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":414,"href":"https:\/\/gurukulgalaxy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions\/414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gurukulgalaxy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gurukulgalaxy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gurukulgalaxy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gurukulgalaxy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}