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| Khoda may get extension of 6 months as DGP | | | Ahmed Ali Fayyaz
SRINAGAR, May 8: Reaching superannuation after completion of 38 years in Indian Police Service (IPS) at the end of current months, Director General of Police (DGP), Kuldeep Khoda, is likely to continue in his chair by the end of November 2012.
Highly placed bureaucratic sources in New Delhi disclosed to Early Times that Omar Abdullah's government in Jammu and Kashmir was "strongly" in favour of granting extension of six months to the service of incumbent DGP, Mr Kuldeep Khoda. According to these usually reliable sources, J&K Government was seeking extension to DGP's service with the argument that change of guard in the state of "fragile peace" would be highly imprudent at this stage. State Government, according to sources, was making it clear to the union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) that rank promotion of IGP Kashmir, SM Sahai, and IGP Jammu, Dilbagh Singh, was being deferred only for the purpose of continuity.
Messers Sahai and Dilbagh, alongwith V K Singh (RR-87) and Sheikh Owais Ahmad (Promotee IPS-87), were otherwise entitled to elevation to the rank of Additional DGP from January 1st, 2012. Significantly, the state Home Department's Departmental Promotion Committee (DPC), comprising Chief Secretary Madhav Lal, Principal Secretary Home, B R Sharma, and DGP Kuldeep Khoda, has cleared IPS officers of the ranks of SSP and DIG for the time-bound promotion last month but the Government has deferred promotion of IGPs to the rank of Additional DGPs on their entering 25th year of continuous service on January 1st, 2012. Following the DPC clearance, state government has formally promoted these officers and ordered their transfers and appointments last month.
Quoting "fragility of peace" and the need to further stabilize the situation, Omar Abdullah's government is understood to have conveyed to the Centre that it was strongly in favour of continuing not only the two zonal Police heads but also the incumbent DGP despite latter's superannuation on May 31st. With most of the men of consequence, from the union Home Minister, P Chidambaram, to the union Home Secretary, R K Singh, being in support of Mr Khoda, he was likely to get extension of service by three months from the state government and later extension of three more months with the mandatory approval of the Government of India.
Sources said that decks were accordingly being cleared for Mr Khoda's continuation as DGP in J&K for six months beyond his scheduled date of retirement on May 31st, 2012. This arrangement would also be advantageous to the two senior most Additional DGPs in J&K, namely K Rajendra Kumar (RR-84) and P L Gupta (RR-84), who had been both aspiring for promotion as DGP on Mr Khoda's retirement. However, both were deficient by two years in completing 30 years of service as IPS officers. Sources insisted that in case Mr Khoda continued as DGP till the end of November 2012, it would become easier for the state and the central government to pick up one among Rajendra and Gupta as the next Police chief. "Deficiency of one year could be relaxed easily", said a well placed source.
Previously, Omar Abdullah government had planned to induct Mr Khoda as the first chief of the newly created State Vigilance Commission upon his retirement in May 2012. It was still unclear whether the state government would keep the post vacant till expiry of Mr Khoda's extension or appoint a new incumbent in SVC.
As a matter of routine, MHA had also submitted a panel of three senior IPS officers to the state government for appointment as DGP. They included Special Director CISF, Arun Choudhary, (who held J&K desk in IB for a long time), Additional Director of IB in J&K, Ashok Prasad, and Special DG Operations in CRPF, P M Nair. However, Omar Abdullah government was believed to be averse to picking up any of the three as the new DGP. |
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