Process to fill two posts of DSP underway, says DGP, Chandigarh

Ramkrishan Upadhyay

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Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, August 5

The Chandigarh Police have started the process to fill two vacant posts of the Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP). The proposal to hold a meeting of the Department Promotion Committee (DPC) for filling the vacant posts has been sent to the Home Department of the UT Administration.

The information in this regard has been given by Sanjay Beniwal, Director General of Police (DGP), in an affidavit filed before the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) Chandigarh. The affidavit was filed on the direction of the CAT.

The CAT issued the direction for filing the affidavit while hearing the petition of an inspector, Barjinder Singh, filed through counsel Nitin Sharma, who prayed for convening the meeting of the DPC claiming to be the senior-most inspector in the Chandigarh Police.

In the affidavit, Beniwal said the proposal file of the applicant was received on July 19, 2021, and the agenda for filling two vacant posts of the Deputy Superintendent of Police, UT, was forwarded to the Home Department on July 30, 2021.

He said as per the notification issued by the Government of India, the post of UT DSP is Group-A post.

The chairman or a member of the UPSC is the chairman of the DPC, while other members of the committee include UT Adviser, Principal Secretary (Home) and UT DGP. He said the chairman or the member of the UPSC, being the chairman of the committee, had to provide the date for convening the DPC meeting, for which agenda had already been sent to the Home Department.

In its order pronounced on July 28, 2021, the CAT observed that the counsel for the respondents had failed to dispute the fact that the applicant was the senior-most inspector with the Chandigarh Police. He is also unable to dispute the fact that two posts of the DSP are lying vacant in the Chandigarh Police.

On the statement of the counsel, the CAT directed the counsel to place on record the affidavit of the competent authority regarding his statement. The Government of India has framed new recruitment rules for the posts of the DSP in a notification issued on January 1, 2021. The applicant has also placed the copy of the recruitment rules before the CAT.