MHA orders UT to relieve 8 DANIPS-cadre DSPs

Tribune News Service

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Chandigarh, January 29 

The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) today issued the relieving orders of eight DSPs of the Delhi, Andaman and Nicobar Islands Police Services (DANIPS) cadre, who were transferred out of the city on December 21. 

In the orders, the MHA has asked the UT Administration to relieve the eight DSPs serving in Chandigarh with an immediate effect. 

The orders pertain to DSPs Chepyala Anjitha, Rashmi Sharma, Satish Kumar, Deepak Yadav, Pawan Kumar, Krishan Kumar, Sukhraj Katewa and Rajiv Kumar Ambasta.

On December 21, the MHA had transferred these DSPs to the Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi. However, they were not relieved by the UT Administration.

During a hearing in a contempt petition, which was filed by Chandigarh Police inspectors against the UT Administration and the police department, on January 25, the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) had asked the counsel for the Union of India as to why the DSPs from the DANIPS cadre had not been sent back. The counsel had informed the bench that the MHA had already issued their transfer orders. However, the UT was yet to relieve them. In response, the UT’s standing counsel had told the tribunal that there was a shortage of police officers at present and they could not be relieved currently as they were required to maintain law and order. He had added that as soon as the inspectors would be promoted to the DSP rank, the DANIPS cadre personnel would be relieved. The bench asked UT to file a compliance affidavit on the next hearing in this regard as well, failing which, the Home Secretary and other respondents would have to personally be present in the court on the next hearing. 

Three inspectors of UT police, Charanjit Singh, Gurmukh Singh and Dilsher Singh, had filed the contempt petition as the department and the UT Administration had failed to comply with the CAT orders.