The Telangana High Court rejected the plea challenging the promotion process from the State Police Service to the Indian Police Service (IPS).
The HC decision was delivered by a two-judge panel comprising Chief Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh and Justice G.M. Mohiuddin while hearing a writ petition filed by L.S. Chowhan, a State Police Service officer.
The petitioner had questioned the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) order refusing to interfere with the IPS selection process for the panel years 2009 and 2010.
Chowhan, who also served as Superintendent of Police (SP), contended that the state authorities adversely affected his consideration for inclusion in the IPS select list by withholding his integrity certificate and hence described the selection process as arbitrary.
He went on to allege procedural irregularities and possible bias in the functioning of the Selection Committee.
The panel held that the non-issuance of the integrity certificate did not vitiate the independent assessment undertaken by the Selection Committee. The panel did not find any material to substantiate the allegation of bias.
The panel said the Selection Committee independently evaluates eligible officers on the basis of their service records and Annual Confidential Reports through a comparative assessment of merit.
The HC panel also noted that the petitioner had been graded “Good,” whereas several officers in the zone of consideration were graded “Very Good,” and therefore his non-inclusion in the select list was a consequence of the statutory limitation on the number of vacancies and the comparative grading assigned by the Committee.
The court concluded that the Tribunal’s order did not suffer from any jurisdictional error warranting interference and dismissed the writ petition.
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