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Tribunal suspends GOs on repatriation of police officers

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They can’t be treated as “excess force”: tribunal
Bench was dealing with a writ filed by 100 policemen

HYDERABAD: The Andhra Pradesh Administrative Tribunal (APAT) suspended operation of a set of Government Orders issued this month repatriating Sub Inspectors and Inspectors of the City police to their native zones.

A two-member bench of the tribunal comprising Narasimha Rao and Sudhendra Kulkarni passed the orders on Friday while considering a batch of writ petitions filed by one hundred Sub Inspectors and Inspectors of Police who were appointed in the city between 1985 and 1998.

The counsel for petitioners R.V. Mallikarjun Rao said the police officers had challenged GOs 160 to 166 on the ground that they could not be sent out of their parent unit, Hyderabad City Police, for which they were recruited exclusively on merit. They could not be treated as “excess force”, a term used against them.

Mr. Rao said the officers also informed the court that they could not be covered by the localisation principle under the Presidential Order for the State as Hyderabad City Police Act was an exempted category of the order. The Act which was a Central legislation held the field and the term “repatriation” as used in the orders did not apply to them. They held that G.O. 610 on repatriation of staff has no legal sanctity to give them repatriation orders. Hence, the GOs 160 to 166 had no legal backing. The court was satisfied by the argument and passed the orders, Mr. Rao added.

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