In the midst of continuing confusion and uncertainty over who becomes the next DGP, the Telangana govt is reported to have sent a list of seven senior IPS officers to the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC), for the selection of a new police chief for the state.
This list includes the names of CV Anand (IPS:1991:TG), Ravi Gupta (IPS:1990:TG), Jitender (IPS:1992:TG), B Shivadhar Reddy (IPS:1994:TG), Shikha Goel (IPS:1994:TG), Soumya Mishra (IPS:1994:TG) and K Sreenivasa Reddy (IPS:1994:TG). Out of these seven names, the UPSC will pick three whose names will be sent to the Telangana government to pick the officer of its choice as DGP.
Special Chief Secretary (Home) Ravi Gupta is the senior most DG-rank officer on the list, who has the experience of serving as an acting DGP from Dec 2023 to July 2024.
But sources indicate that Hyderabad Police Commissioner C V Anand and DG (Intelligence) B Shivadhar Reddy are real frontrunners. Both have more than a year left for retirement. While Shivadhar’s retirement is due in April 2026, Anand is to retire in June 2028.
According to the Supreme Court guidelines, issued in Prakash Singh case of 2006, a DGP has to be a DG-rank officer and must be appointed for a minimum tenure of two years, irrespective of his/her date of superannuation.
Incidentally, no full-time DGP has been appointed in Telangana ever since the Congress government came to power in Dec 2023. All police chiefs have virtually been in-charges. M Mahendar Reddy was the last IPS officer, appointed as a regular DGP by the previous BRS government in 2018 in line with the SC guidelines.
Since Dec 2022, many officers, like Anjani Kumar, Ravi Gupta and Jitender, were posted as DGP (coordination) but were given the full additional charge of DGP, but no full-fledged DGP was appointed.
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