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With the notification for the Tamil Nadu Assembly elections expected successful astir a month, the suspension of much than 400 constabulary officers and unit is apt to beryllium revoked successful the State.
In a enactment sent to elder constabulary officers crossed the State, Director General of Police and Head of Police Force (in charge) G. Venkatraman said that of the 439 constabulary unit nether suspension arsenic of December 31, 2026, successful corruption, disciplinary, criminal, and departmental cases, 202 had been nether suspension for much than a year.
The enactment said the authorities had reiterated the request to strictly adhere to the prescribed clip limits for processing disciplinary proceedings and to debar unwarranted delays successful their completion.
Exercise powerfulness with restraint
Prolonged suspension, it said, resulted successful the authorities paying an worker without immoderate enactment being taken from him oregon her. “Hence, the powerfulness to bid suspension should beryllium exercised cautiously and with restraint. Suspension shall not beryllium resorted to unless the acrophobic authority, aft considering each applicable factors, records a reasoned decision that specified enactment is indispensable and successful nationalist interest,” the enactment said.
Mr. Venkatraman directed elder constabulary officers to reappraisal each suspension cases nether their respective jurisdictions connected a case-by-case ground and instrumentality a determination connected revoking the suspension of constabulary personnel.
Priority should beryllium fixed to cases wherever unit person been nether suspension for a prolonged period, arsenic galore specified suspensions had been quashed by courts connected method grounds. Preference could besides beryllium fixed successful cases wherever nary sedate delinquency oregon superior misconduct was involved, and wherever the quality of the charges did not warrant continued suspension oregon prejudice disciplinary proceedings oregon nationalist involvement beyond a tenable period.
In cases wherever transgression charges progressive analyzable questions of instrumentality and fact, and wherever the disciplinary authorization was not successful a presumption to reason proceedings – peculiarly cases based connected vigilance reports pending earlier courts without explicit reasons for hold – the competent authorization may, successful consultation with the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption, determine to revoke the suspension.
Reinstated constabulary unit should beryllium posted to non-sensitive posts until their implicit exoneration. Senior constabulary officers person been instructed to instrumentality contiguous steps to revoke the suspensions and taxable a compliance study to the DGP’s bureau by February 13, 2026.
