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Tuesday, Feb 08, 2005

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Consider six sub-inspectors for promotion: court

By Our Staff Reporter

CHENNAI, FEB. 7. The Madras High Court has asked the State Government to include six sub-inspectors, who were promoted SIs under the in-service quota in 1994-95, in the seniority list and consider them for promotion as inspectors. The 1994-95 batch comprised 267 in-service SIs and 1,100 direct recruits.

Justice F.M. Ibrahim Kalifulla gave the direction to the Home Secretary and the Director-General of Police on a writ petition from the SIs.

The petitioners contended that they were unfairly placed below their directly-recruited counterparts, who were their juniors as per a July 1995 Government Order. A total of 1,167 SIs were selected and for "administrative convenience" they were deputed for training in two batches. The first batch of 500 candidates consisted of direct recruits, while the other batch included the 267 persons, promoted from the ranks.

Maintaining that the entire batch formed one lot, the petitioners said that as per the July 13, 1995 GO, the in-service promotees were to be placed above the 1,100 direct recruits. The department did not issue any seniority role till now. Irrespective of the date of actual appointment, by inter se seniority they ought to have been placed above the direct recruits.

On December 3 last, when preparation of the `C-List' for promotion to inspectors got under way, the 267 names were not included. This was a "great injustice" and they were "unjustly denied" a promotion, possibly the last one in their decades-long career.

"Proceeding to draw up a list of eligible sub-inspectors as on December 31, 1996, without even publishing a combined seniority list as on that date is nothing but a veiled attempt to deprive the petitioners of their last chance for last promotion in their career," they said.

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