TWO PUNJAB IGPS MOVE CAT FOR SENIORITY

CHANDIGARH: Two inspector generals (IGS) with the Punjab Police have moved the Chandigarh bench of the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) seeking convening of departmental promotion committee (DPC) and inducting them in the new seniority list from retrospective dates of 1999. Arpit Shukla, IGP (Zone 2), Jalandhar and Paramraj Singh, IGP, Rule and Policy, Chandigarh moved the tribunal. A notice has been issued to the Punjab DGP, the state of Punjab, the Centre and the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) for April 24.

The petition states that all applicants were initially appointed as DSPS on different dates and further promoted from the state police service cadre to the Indian Police Services (IPS) cadre against the select lists of 2001 to 2010. They pleaded that an order dated January 4, 2016, be quashed wherein to review the shortlisted people in respect of the promotions made to Indian Police Service (IPS) 1999 onwards, had been ‘wrongly’ rejected.

The petition also pointed that in that particular order, there was no provision to review the select list approved earlier, despite the fact that the applicants had became senior to those promoted in pursuance of the select list onwards of 1999, as per the final seniority list in December 2011.

PETITION STATES ALL APPLICANTS WERE MADE DSPS ON DIFFERENT DATES AND PROMOTED FROM STATE POLICE TO THE IPS