The saga of former Chandigarh Director General of Police (DGP) Surendra Singh Yadav’s tumultuous stint continues. After being stripped of the leadership role in Chandigarh Police and handed out marching orders to proceed on central deputation as the Border Security Force (BSF) DIG, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has now ordered his premature repatriation from BSF to his parent cadre, the Delhi Police, with immediate effect.
Interestingly, the Home Ministry’s order comes with the subject line ‘Premature repatriation of S S Yadav, DIG (BSF) to his parent cadre.’ The MHA’s order comes seven months after he was moved from Chandigarh to the BSF as DIG on deputation.
His roller-coaster ride began on April 1 this year when he was transferred to the BSF on deputation after serving just over a year as the DGP in the Union Territory. Since April 1, he has been transferred thrice. He was transferred from Chandigarh to the BSF overnight and sent to Delhi. He sought legal protection by rushing to the court, saying the Home Ministry appointed him to the post of DIG in BSF under his junior, but the court rejected his plea.
Yadav’s decision to go to the court against the MHA seems to have paved the way for his troubles, as he was transferred again from Delhi to Rajasthan for orientation and then sent to BSF headquarters in Chhattisgarh as DIG anti-Naxal operations. These transfer orders were issued in quick succession.
In fact, Yadav’s appointment as Chandigarh DGP in March 2024 brought ignominy to him due to his controversial orders. As Chandigarh DGP, he transferred about 2763 police jawans who had been stuck in one place for a long time. Never before had such a large number of personnel been transferred. After this, he started attending public meetings, including police personnel in the police stations.
He did not stop here and even got the police personnel involved in cases related to drug smuggling and corruption retired. Apart from this, cases were also registered against those who set up the police stations.
Yadav’s tenure as DGP is said to have left the Chandigarh police personnel horrified, so much so that most of them decided to leave the police department and applied for the VRS en masse.
These developments seem to have set the ball rolling, and the tide was turned on the night of April 1, when the Home Ministry issued marching orders transferring Yadav from Chandigarh to Delhi as DIG in BSF. He moved the court against it and is believed to be still paying the price for it.
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