Rushing to the court against the Union Home Ministry’s orders is proving costly for former Chandigarh DGP Surendra Singh Yadav as his trouble began to confound. Since April 1, he has been transferred thrice. He was transferred from Chandigarh to the Border Security Force (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 Ministry of Home Affairs seems to have rubbed the bosses in the MHA the wrong way as he was transferred again from Delhi to Rajasthan for orientation, and now he has been sent to BSF headquarters in Chhattisgarh as DIG anti-Naxal operations. These transfers orders have been issued in quick succession.
In fact, Surendra Singh Yadav, a 1997 batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer of the AGMUT cadre, was appointed as DGP in Chandigarh in March, 2024. But his actions brought ignominy to him. As Chandigarh DGP, he shot into the limelight when 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 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 police personnel horrified, so much so that most of the UT police personnel decided to leave the police department and applied for the VRS en masse.
The UT police personnel were reportedly so upset with their chief that they also made a letter viral on social media that contained abusive words against him.
These developments seem to have set the ball rolling and the tide was turned on the night of April 1, when the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) issued marching orders transferring DGP Yadav from Chandigarh to Delhi as DIG in BSF. Not only this, Yadav was asked to report to the Delhi headquarters with immediate effect.
He moved the court against it and is believed to be paying the price for it.
Notably, in recent days, three IPS officers have been shifted within the BSF. SS Yadav has now been posted to the Command Headquarters of the Anti-Naxal Operations in Chhattisgarh. Mr. Ashok Kumar, a 2006-batch Himachal Pradesh cadre IPS officer currently serving at the BSF Force Headquarters (FHQ) in New Delhi, has been appointed as Inspector General (Training) at the BSF FHQ. Mr. Jal Singh Meena, a 2010-batch Tripura cadre IPS officer posted as Deputy Inspector General (DIG) at BSF FHQ, has been assigned the role of DIG (Confidential), BSF.
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