Punjab chief secretary slams brakes on promotion of eight ADGPs as DGPs

Chief secretary KAP Sinha has put on hold the process of the promotion of eight additional director generals of police to the rank of director generals of police, raising questions over the top heavy police force. As per senior officers, privy to the development, Sinha has asked the state home department to clarify how many posts of DGPs can exist in Punjab and has also raised an issue of two contradictory rules submitted by the home department with regard to the promotion of the officers. According to a home department file, IPS officers have a vertical tenure-based promotion system in accordance with IPS cadre rules. The notification issued in 2010 by GOI under All India Services Act, 1951, read with sub-rules and of rule 4 of the Indian Police Service Rules, 1954, the Central Government, in consultation with the Government of Punjab, made regulation which said that Punjab can have one post of DGP, one DGP for home guards and civil defence. The home department moved the file for promotion of 1994 batch IPS officers which included Dr Naresh Kumar, Ram Singh, SS Srivastava, V Neerja, Amardeep Singh Rai, Parveen Kumar Sinha, B Chandra Sekhar and Anita Punj.