By Amrit Sidhu Brar
Chandigarh, October 1, 2021: The Punjab Government has sent a panel of names of 10 IPS officers to UPSC for appointment of new regular DGP late last night as per sources.
The names include S Chattopadhyay, current DGP Dinkar Gupta, MK Tewari, VK Bhawra, Parbodh Kumar, Rohit Chaudhary, IPS Sahota, Sanjeev Kalra, Parag Jain and BK Uppal.
It may be recalled that the main reason given by the Punjab government for sending the panel late at night was to include the names of S Chattopadhyay and Rohit Chaudhary as the names of the officers who have six months to retire as per the orders of the Supreme Court could not be sent. Both the officers are due to retire on March 31.
The present DGP Dinkar Gupta is on leave due to which IPS Sahota has been given additional charge of DGP. BK Uppal has also taken a month’s leave and is currently the Vigilance Chief.
The general procedure is that UPSC will now approve 3 out of these 10 names and send them to the State Government, out of which one can be appointed by the State Government as DGP.
It is learnt that PPCC President Navjot Singh Sidhu is pushing the name of S Chattopadhyay for the post of Punjab DGP. Long meeting was held yesterday between CM Charanjit Singh Channy and Navjot Singh Sidhu in Chandigarh to resolve the issue.
