Tribunal dismisses contempt plea filed by 3 UT inspectors

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, February 16

The Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT), Chandigarh Bench, dismissed the contempt petition against the Police Department and the Home Secretary in the case of DSP promotions. The petition was filed by three UT police inspectors.

The Bench dismissed the petition after the UT Administration’s counsel submitted that the orders of the tribunal had been complied with. The standing counsel for the UT on Friday told the CAT that there were no more vacancies for the post of DSP in Chandigarh now and the ones that were there had already been filled by those senior in rank.

Three inspectors of the UT police Charanjit Singh, Gurmukh Singh and Dilsher Singh had filed the contempt petition claiming that the department and the UT had failed to comply with the CAT’s orders to decide representation of the police officers by passing a speaking order within two months in November.

It was done after the order passed by the tribunal in the case of Amrao Singh who had been promoted to DSP from Inspector rank in April 26, 2017 following the CAT orders. In this order, the tribunal had set aside appointment of DANIPS officers to the posts of DSPs in Chandigarh. The CAT had also directed the Administration to consider the case of applicants and other similar officers for promotion to the next post if found eligible under the Punjab Police Rules, within a month.

Earlier, the petitioners had sought directions to the Inspector General of Police, Chandigarh, and the local administration to consider them against the vacant posts of DSPs in terms of prevalent recruitment rules which provide for filling the posts of DSPs 80 per cent by way of promotion and 20 per cent by direct recruitment, rather than resorting to filling the posts on deputation.