6 IGs, 11 DIGs become eligible for rank promotion

Sahai, Dibagh being promoted as ADGs; Javed, Gani, Farooq as IGs

Ahmed Ali Fayyaz

SRINAGAR, Jan 6: Inspector General of Police, Kashmir, Shiv Murari Sahai, as well as IGP Jammu, Dilbagh Singh, are among six IPS officers of 1987 batch who are shortly being promoted to the rank of Additional Director General of Police (ADG). Half-a-dozen IPS officers of 1994 batch---including Javed Mujtaba Gilani, Abdul Gani Mir and Farooq Khan--- are among eleven DIGs who have become eligible for promotion to the rank of IG, subject to the rating of their APRs and vigilance clearance, on January 1^st, 2012.

Completing 25 years of service in IPS in the current year, six senior officers of Jammu & Kashmir cadre, currently holding the rank of IG, have become eligible for promotion to the rank of ADG on January 1^st. They include V K Singh, who has been on Central deputation since June 2007 and is currently posted in Singapur (in RAW). Others in the group include IG Kashmir S M Sahai, IG Jammu Dilbagh Singh, IG Crime Raja Aijaz Ali, IG Personnel & Training at Police Headquarters Sheikh Owais Ahmad and Director at Sher-e-Kashmir Police Training Academy Udhampur Ashok Gupta.

While as V K Singh is on Central deputation and likely to seek extension of two more years beyond June 2012, two IPS officers of 1987 batch, namely Raja Aijaz and Ashok Gupta, are reaching superannuation on February 29^th. In addition of them, three more officers of State Police Service, currently functioning as IG, are also retiring from service in 2012. They include Managing Director of J&K Police Housing Corporation Mohammad Amin Shah, IG Railway Zahoor Ahmad Chisti, both having 1988 as their year of allotment, and IG Armed/IR Jammu Gulzar Singh Salathia (1993). None of the three will be having qualifying service for rank promotion until their retirement on February 29^th, May 31^st and September 30^th, 2012.

With V K Singh being on deputation and Raja Aijaz and Ashok Gupta retiring at the end of February, all the remaining three of 1987 batch---SM Sahai, Dilbagh Singh and Sheikh Owais, are certain for promotion as ADG within a few weeks.

Highly placed sources in the state Home Department revealed to Early Times that a Departmental Promotion Committee, comprising Chief Secretray Madhv Lal, Principal Secretary Home B R Sharma and DGP Kuldeep Khoda, would soon consider rank promotion of the four IGs. Messers Sahai, Dilbagh and Owais are likely to be elevated to substantive posts of ADG and VK Singh would be promoted on proforma basis. According to these sources, currently there was only one substantive vacancy of DG and all the five sanctioned posts of ADG stand filled up. However, the government had powers to create ex cadre posts equivalent to the number of substantive posts as a special arrangement.

APRs of the incumbent officers for the previous five years, which should be ‘Outstanding/Excellent’ for 2 years and ‘Very Good’ for 3 years, as also clearance from State Vigilance Organisation, determine all these time-bound rank promotions in IPS, IAS and IFS.

As against the sanctioned strength of two posts of DG, J&K has currently only one in Mr Kuldeep Khoda who is due to reach superannuation on May 31^st, 2012. In addition to three IPS officers (proforma/ ex cadre), namely Commissioner Vigilance P L Gupta (1984), S K Mishra (1985) and Gopal Reddy (1985), five IPS officers of J&K cadre are currently functioning on substantive posts of ADG. They include ADG Armed/ Law & Order K Rajendra Kumar (1984), ADG Security Ram Lubhaya (1985), ADG Headquarters Dr Shesh Pal Vaid (1986), ADG Home Guard & Civil Defence D R Doley (1986) and ADG Prisons Navin Agarwal (1986).

None of the eight ADGs will be having the qualifying service of 30 years for elevation to the rank of DGP on Mr Khoda’s superannuation on May 31^st this year. Senior most, K Ranjendra Kumar, would attain it on 01-01-2014 and the runner-up P L Gupta on 01-01-2015. Ram Lubhaya would retire in just the 28^th year of his IPS on March 31, 2013.

Among the total of 37 DIGs, eleven IPS officers of 1994 have become eligible for promotion to the rank of IG on January 1^st. Only one of them, namely Javed Mujtaba Gilani, is currently on Central deputation. He too is returning to the state after completion of seven years of deputation with CBI at the end of next month.

Others, who have attained eligibility for promotion to IG by reaching 18^th year of service in 2012, include DIG Kashmir (Central Kashmir and Ladakh) Abdul Gani Mir, DIG Vigilance Mohammad Sulaiman Salaria, DIG CID Jammu Sunil Kumar Sharma, DIG Jammu-Kathua Farooq Khan, DIG IR Jammu Kamal Kumar Saini, DIG Security P R Manhas, DIG Crime Yoginder Kaul, DIG Administration Alok Puri, DIG North Kashmir Munir Khan and DIG Training at Armed PHQ Abdul Qayoom Manhas (retiring on 31-08-2012).

According to sources Messers Javed Gilani, AG Mir, Sulaiman Salaria, Sunil Sharma, Farooq Khan and Dr Kamal Saini have bright chances of the rank promotion as a minimum of six posts of IG are likely to be available by later this year.

Seven SSPs, who have 1998 as their year of IPS allotment, have also become eligible for promotion to the rank of DIG on January 1^st. They include RP Resutra (SSP CID SB Jammu), Parminder Singh (SSP SSG), Dr Showkat Ahmad Malik (SSP CID SB Kashmir) Syed Ahfadul Mujtaba (SSP Vigilance), Abdul Hamid (CO IR-1st Bn) Mushtaq Mohammad Sadiq (Principal PTC Manigam) and Shakeel Ahmed Beigh (SSP Udhampur).

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