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| Police officers smell foul play in promotions | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | May 21
Police circles suspect pro-IAS and KAS bias on the part of the state cabinet which separated the list of officers in the civil services from the police when it met in Srinagar on Tuesday.
Names of four DIGs had been recommended to the cabinet for promotion to the rank of Inspector General Police. Names of two other IGs, K.Rajendra and P.L.Gupta, had been recommended for promotion to the rank of Additional Director General Police.
When three days prior to the cabinet meeting the agenda got leaked out police officers expecting promotions received calls from their friends and colleagues congratulating them in advance.The police circles felt upset when the cases of four DIGs, B Srinivas, M.A.Anjum, Ravinder Kotwal and Farooq Ahmed and the two IGs were not taken up by the cabinet for consideration. Against this 13 officers in the civil services were promoted to higher ranks and some of them were given special grades and released
principal's grade in favour of Dr Rajinder Singh with retrospective effect.
A senior police officer today said that delay in elevating four DIGs and two IGs to higher ranks had delayed promotion to other officers who were scheduled to fill the vacant posts.Wishing to remain unidentified the police officer said that the successive state Governments have shown pro-IAS and KAS bias with the result the police has been on the receiving end.Invariably either the promotions are delayed or they are kept in abeyance for years together.In support of his contention he said that at one stage 52 DSPs were due for promotion to the next rank but their promotion cases were cleared after two
years.
Another officer said that even after these DSPs were promoted to SPs rank they were not adjusted and most of them had to work as DSPs in their areas.He said during the last 18 years the overall strength in the police has gone up from 30,000 to over one lakh
and as such even marginal delay could squeeze promotion avenues for ranks from IGs down to sub-inspectors.He said the agenda on promotions in the civil services and the police should have taken for considearion by the cabinet together.By segregating the list of officers in civil services and those in the police the IAS lobby seems to have played the trick which the members of the cabinet have been unable to detect.police officers wanted the Chief Minister,Ghulam Nabi Azad,to convene a special cabinet meeting only for clearing cases of promotion of senior police officers. |
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