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| DB directs counsel for petitioner to assist court on maintainability of PIL in service matter | | PIL alleging illegal appointment of SPOs as constables | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, June 4: In a PIL seeking a CBI probe into alleged illegal appointment of Special Police Officers (SPOs) as constables from 2018 till March 2020, a division bench of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court here comprising Chief Justice Pankaj Mithal and Justice Dhiraj Singh Thakur directed Counsel for the petitioner to assist the Court on maintainability of the PIL in service matters.
In the PIL details have been sought of all the candidates who had been recruited/ appointed on the basis of field operations duties by the Director General of Police (DGP) and Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Anantnag in the last three years.
The petitioner submitted that the SSP Anantnag in connivance with the DGP J&K had recruited/ appointed SPOs who had taken no part in field operations as constables on the basis of operational functions in the districts of Anantnag, Pulwama, Shopian and Kulgam.
It was submitted that the persons so appointed were either working as personal security officers for high-profile bureaucrats or were performing the duties at the residences of police officers and other bureaucrats. "By indulging in this act, the SSP Anantnag and DGP J&K police have indulged in mass-scale irregularities in appointing them as constables," the petitioner stated.
The petitioner alleged there was a nexus in the police department which allowed such recruitments in the police department to be made with impunity. "The appointees are illegally shown to have participated in operational duties, particularly in South Kashmir, when there is no scope of their proximity in the field operations. The SPOs detailed as personal guards have no occasion to perform operational functions, therefore, to lift the veil, the jurisdiction of this court is sought to achieve the public interest," the petitioner submitted.
The DB observed that it appears that the controversy involved in this public interest petition is regarding the service matter of SPO's as constables and directed counsel for the petitioner is therefore directed to study the matter if a PIL can be maintained in respect of service matter. |
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