New Delhi Apr 20 PTI In a major reshuffle the Ministry of Home Affairs on Wednesday transferred 42 Indian Police Service IPS officers to new postingsAccording to an official order 42 IPS officers from the AGMUT cadre have been transferred and given new postings in Delhi Arunachal Pradesh Goa Mizoram Chandigarh Andaman and Nicobar Islands Lakshwadeep Jammu and Kashmir Puducherry and Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and DiuOf these 42 officers DCP Special Cell Pramod Singh Kushwah and Sanjeev Kumar Yadav who have handled several terror-related cases have been transferred to Arunachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir respectivelyHargobinder Singh 1997 Ankit Kumar Singh 2013 Raja Banthia 2014 Hemant Tiwari 2014 Kushal Pal Singh 2014 and Harsh Indora 2016 have been transferred from Arunachal Pradesh to Delhi the order saidBosco George has been transferred to Goa from Arunachal PradeshVijay Singh 2005 Ravi Kumar Singh 2012 Vichitra Veer 2013 Ankit Chauhan 2013 Rajeev Kumar 2014 and Sandhya Swami 2016 have been transferred to Delhi from Andaman and Nicobar Islands it statedAmit Roy 2009 Mangesh Kashyap 2009 Sudhanshu 2016 and Sachin Kumar Singhal 2017 have been given new postings at Arunachal Pradesh from Delhi the order said PTI NIT NIT VN VN

New Delhi Apr 19 PTI Senior IAS officer Naresh Kumar has been appointed as the chief secretary of Delhi a home ministry order issued on Tuesday saidKumar a 1987-batch AGMUT cadre IAS officer has been transferred from Arunachal Pradesh to Delhi He was holding the post of chief secretary of Arunachal Pradesh before the transferConsequent upon voluntary retirement of Vijay Dev IAS AGMUT1987 Naresh Kumar IAS AGMUT1987 is hereby appointed as chief secretary of the GNCTD with effect from April 21 2022 or with effect from date of joining whichever is later stated the orderKumar had earlier held the posts of chairman of the New Delhi Municipal Council NDMC and managing director of the Delhi Transport CorporationDTC in his previous stint in Delhi PTI VIT ANB ANB ANB

New Delhi Feb 20PTI Delhis power regulator DERC has appointed Delhi Polices former Special Commissioner Pardeep Kumar Bhardwaj as its ombudsman to examine grievances of the citys electricity consumers A 1987-batch IPS officer of the AGMUT cadre Bhardwaj had earlier held several prestigious posts in the central government and had retired as a special commissioner of Delhi Police He was administered the oath of office by the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission Chairman Justice Retd Shabihul Hasnain earlier this week said a DERC statement The institution of the Electricity Ombudsman was established by the Commission under the provisions of Sections 425 and 426 of the Electricity Act 2003 and the DERC Forum for redressal of grievances of the consumers and ombudsman Regulations 2018 Four consumer grievances redressal forum CGRF one each for consumers of discoms BSES Rajdhani Power Ltd BRPL BSES Yamuna Power Ltd BYPL Tata Power Delhi Distribution Ltd TPDDL and New Delhi Municipal Council NDMC have been functioning since 2004 Any aggrieved electricity consumer may approach the appropriate forum seeking redressal of his grievance related to metering billing grant of a new connection disconnection reconnection change of name of the registered consumer But these forums cannot be moved in matters related to the unauthorised use or theft of electricity and meter tampering among others The consumers who are not satisfied with the decision of the CGRF can approach the DERC ombudsman who acts as an appellate authority over the CGRF the statement said PTI VIT RAX RAX

New Delhi Jan 18 PTI Delhi Chief Secretary Vijay Dev will retire voluntarily on April 20 and take charge as the election commissioner of Delhi the next day according to official ordersThe 1987 batch AGMUT cadre IAS officer was in November appointed as the election commissioner of Delhi for a six-year term or on attaining 65 years of ageThe President is pleased to accept the notice of voluntary retirement dated December 31 2021 of Vijay Kumar Dev an IAS officer of 1987 batch AGMUT cadre and permit him to retire voluntarily with effect from April 20 2022 in accordance with Rule 162 of All India Services death-cum-retirement benefits rules 1958 a home ministry order saidDev will take charge as election commissioner of Delhi from April 21He became Delhi chief secretary in 2018 PTI VIT ZMN

New Delhi [India], January 17 (ANI): The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Monday promoted four 1997 batch Arunachal Pradesh-Goa-Mizoram Union Territory (AGMUT) cadre IPS officers to the rank of Additional Director General of Police.

New Delhi Nov 26 PTI The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear the plea of an NGO challenging the Delhi High Court order which upheld the Centres decision to appoint senior IPS officer Rakesh Asthana as Delhi Police Commissioner A bench of Justices D Y Chandrachud and A S Bopanna issued notice to the Centre and Asthana and sought their response on the plea of the NGO the Centre for Public Interest Litigation The NGO has filed a writ petition and an appeal against the appointment of Asthana as Delhi Police Commissioner four days before his superannuation on July 31 Advocate Prashant Bhushan appearing for the NGO said that they have filed the appeal as directed by the top court on November 18 Solicitor General Tushar Mehta appearing for Centre and Senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi representing Asthana said that they would file their replies in two weeks On November 18 the top court had asked the NGO to file an appeal against the Delhi High Court order On October 12 the Delhi High Court upheld the Centres decision to appoint Asthana as Delhi Police Commissioner saying there was no irregularity illegality or infirmity in his selection Dismissing a PIL challenging his selection it had said the justification and reasons given by the Centre for appointing Asthana are plausible calling for no interference in judicial review The high court had said the Supreme Courts decision in the Prakash Singh case which mandated a minimum tenure for certain police officials and the constitution of a UPSC panel before selection was not applicable to the appointment of Police Commissioner for Delhi but were intended to apply only to the appointment of a State DGP Asthana a 1984-batch IPS officer who was serving as the Director-General of Border Security Force was appointed the Commissioner on July 27 after being shifted to the Union Territory cadre from Gujarat cadre for the tenure of one year On August 25 the top court had asked the Delhi High Court to decide preferably within a period of two weeks the plea pending before it challenging the appointment of Asthana as Delhi Police Commissioner It had permitted the NGO to move the high court to intervene in the pending plea against Asthanas appointment The NGOs petition has urged the top court to set aside the Centres order to appoint Asthana after extending his service period At the outset the CJI had then expressed his inability to hear the PIL saying I had expressed my views during the selection of CBI Director The CJI in an earlier meeting of the high-powered selection panel which also comprised the Prime Minister and the leader of the opposition had put forth the legal position which reportedly led to non-consideration of Asthana for being appointed as the CBI Director The NGO has urged the apex court to direct the central government to produce its July 27 order approving the inter-cadre deputation of Asthana from Gujarat cadre to AGMUT cadre It termed the extension of his tenure as well as appointment as illegal as he did not have a residual tenure of mandatory six months of service at the time of his appointment as Commissioner of Police since he was to retire within four days It also claimed that the order violated the Fundamental Rule 56d which stipulates that no government servant shall be granted extension in service beyond the age of retirement of sixty years The central government did not have the power under Rule 3 of All India Services Conditions of Service- Residuary Matters Rules to relax Rule 161 of the All India Services Death-Cum-Retirement Benefits Rules in order to give the extension of service to Rakesh Asthana the PIL claimed The CPIL has further claimed that the Centres order violated the policy regarding Inter-Cadre deputation of All India Service Officers PTI MNL MNL RKS RKS

New Delhi Nov 18 PTI The Supreme Court Thursday allowed an NGO to file an appeal against the Delhi High Court order which upheld the Centres decision to appoint senior IPS officer Rakesh Asthana as Delhi Police Commissioner four days before his superannuation on July 31A bench of Justices D Y Chandrachud and A S Bopanna said that it will take up for hearing the writ petition filed by the NGO and the appeal to be filed by it on November 26Advocate Prashant Bhushan appearing for the NGO Centre for Public Interest Litigation CPIL said that the court had on August 25 kept its plea against Asthanas appointment pending and asked the Delhi High Court to decide expeditiously a similar plea pending thereNow that the high court has decided the plea pending there this court has the benefit of the judgement I request this court to decide our plea which is pending here challenging the appointment of Asthana Bhushan saidSolicitor General Tushar Mehta appearing for the Centre raised preliminary objection on technical ground that it is a writ petition and if Bhushan is aggrieved by the order of the high court then he has to file an appeal with the permission of this courtThe bench said there are precedents where with courts permission a party who is aggrieved with high court order can file an appealWe will grant you liberty to file an appeal and would take both the writ petition and the appeal together and decide it because we only asked you by our order of August 25 to move the High Court by way of impleadment the bench saidSenior advocate Mukul Rohatgi appearing for Asthana said the court should not keep the writ petition pending if it is granting liberty to the petitioner NGO to file an appeal The bench said it would look into that aspect on November 26On October 12 the Delhi High Court upheld the Centres decision to appoint Asthana as Delhi Police Commissioner four days before his superannuation on July 31 saying there was no irregularity illegality or infirmity in his selectionDismissing a PIL challenging his selection it had said the justification and reasons given by the Centre for appointing Asthana are plausible calling for no interference in judicial reviewThe high court had said the Supreme Courts decision in the Prakash Singh case which mandated a minimum tenure for certain police officials and the constitution of a UPSC panel before selection was not applicable to the appointment of Police Commissioner for Delhi but were intended to apply only to the appointment of a State DGPAsthana a 1984-batch IPS officer who was serving as the Director-General of Border Security Force was appointed the Commissioner on July 27 after being shifted to the Union Territory cadre from Gujarat cadre for the tenure of one yearOn August 25 the top court had asked the Delhi High Court to decide preferably within a period of two weeks the plea pending before it challenging the appointment of Asthana as Delhi Police CommissionerIt had permitted the NGO to move the high court to intervene in the pending plea against Asthanas appointmentThe NGOs petition has urged the top court to set aside the Centres order to appoint Asthana after extending his service periodAt the outset the CJI had then expressed his inability to hear the PIL saying I had expressed my views during the selection of CBI DirectorThe CJI in an earlier meeting of the high-powered selection panel which also comprised the Prime Minister and the leader of opposition had put forth the legal position which reportedly led to non-consideration of Asthana for being appointed as the CBI DirectorThe NGO have urged the apex court to direct the central government to produce its July 27 order approving the inter-cadre deputation of Asthana from Gujarat cadre to AGMUT cadreIt termed the extension of his tenure as well as appointment as illegal as he did not have a residual tenure of mandatory six months of service at the time of his appointment as Commissioner of Police since he was to retire within 4 daysIt also claimed that the order violated the Fundamental Rule 56d which stipulates that no government servant shall be granted extension in service beyond the age of retirement of sixty years The central government did not have the power under Rule 3 of All India Services Conditions of Service- Residuary Matters Rules to relax Rule 161 of the All India Services Death-Cum-Retirement Benefits Rules in order to give extension of service to Rakesh Asthana the PIL claimedThe CPIL have further claimed that the Centres order violated the policy regarding Inter-Cadre deputation of All India Service Officers PTI MNL SA

New Delhi [India], November 8 (ANI): In possible trouble for the National Democratic Alliance in Mizoram, the state government led by chief minister Zoramthanga has opposed the central government's appointment of the new state chief secretary Renu Sharma.

New Delhi [India], October 4 (ANI): Twelve officers of the Jammu and Kashmir Police have been appointed to the Indian Police Service (IPS) on probation and allocated to the Jammu and Kashmir segment of the Union Territory under Arunachal Pradesh, Goa and Mizoram Union Territory (AGMUT) cadre.

New Delhi Sep 17 PTI Gujarat-cadre IPS officer Rakesh Asthana has told the Delhi High Court that there is a sustained social media campaign against him and the legal challenge to his appointment as Delhi Police Commissioner was an abuse of process of law arising from vendetta In his affidavit filed on a public interest litigation PIL against his appointment Asthana said that ever since he was appointed Special Director CBI proceedings are being consistently filed against him by certain organisations as part of a selective campaign There are two organisations namely Common Cause and Centre for Public Interest Litigations who are professional public interest litigants and exist only for filing litigations as the only way of public service One or two individuals run both the organisation enjoying deep and pervasive control over these organisations the affidavit said Individuals running them in recent past for some oblique and ostensible undisclosed reason have started barrage of selective actions against me either out of some vendetta about which I am not aware or at the behest of some individualinterest it added This personal vendetta or a proxy war is projected under the PIL cloak it said adding that the Court may not allow such attempts using the august forum The affidavit further said Not only the process of law was abused against the deponent but in addition there was a sustained social media campaign which corroborates and justifies the apprehension of the deponent that the challenge to my appointment is the result of either some vendetta which is unknown to me or is being conducted at the behest of some undisclosed individual rival interest The affidavit was filed in response to the PIL by Sadre Alam a lawyer who has sought quashing of the July 27 order issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs appointing Asthana as the Delhi Police Commissioner as also the order granting inter-cadre deputation as well as extension of service to him just before his superannuation on July 31 Asthana said the merits and demerits of his appointment could only be dealt with by the central government The Centre has submitted that Asthanas appointment was done in public interest keeping in mind the diverse law and order challenges faced by the national capital Defending Asthanas appointment the Centre in an affidavit said that it felt a compelling need to appoint a person as a head of the police force of Delhi who had diverse and vast experience of heading a large police force in a large State having diverse political as well as public order problem experience of working and supervising Central Investigating Agencys as well as para-military forces The Centre said his service tenure was also extended in public interest in exercise of the powers vested in the cadre controlling authority The prime consideration for the same was that Delhi being the capital of the country has been witnessing diverse and extremely challenging situations of public orderlaw and order situationpolicing issues which not only had national security implications but also internationalcross border implications said the affidavit filed by the Secretary Union Home Ministry It explained that the when a search for a suitable candidate was done in the Union Territory cadre it was felt that requisite experience was lacking in the present pool of available officers In the affidavit filed through lawyer Amit Mahajan the Centre said no fault can be found in the appointment of Asthana as Delhi Police Commissioner which has been done in accordance with and after scrupulously following all the applicable rules and regulations The Centre said that the PIL as well as the intervention of NGO Centre for Public Interest Litigation CPIL -- which has challenged Asthanas appointment before the Supreme Court deserves to be dismissed with exemplary costs The petition has contended that the appointment of Asthana is in clear and blatant breach of the directions passed by the Supreme Court in Prakash Singh case as the officer does not have a minimum residual tenure of six months and no UPSC panel was formed for his appointment of Delhi Police Commissioner It also contended that the High-Powered Committee comprising the Chief Justice of India Prime Minister and the Leader of Opposition in its meeting held on May 24 2021 rejected the Central governments attempt to appoint Asthana as the CBI Director on the basis of the six-month rule as laid down by the Supreme Court in the Prakash Singh case The appointment of Asthana to the post of Commissioner of Police Delhi must be set aside on the same principle it said The petition with similar prayers which has been filed by CPIL before the Supreme Court has urged to direct the central government to produce the July 27 order it issued approving the inter-cadre deputation of Asthana from Gujarat cadre to AGMUT cadre The petition has also urged the apex court to set aside the Centres order to extend Asthanas service period On August 25 the Supreme Court had asked the high court to decide within two weeks the plea pending before it against the appointment of the senior IPS officer as Delhi Police Commissioner PTI ADS SA