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The important gathering scheduled successful Delhi connected Friday to shortlist the names of 3 Director General of Police-rank officers acceptable for assignment arsenic DGP/Head of the Police Force of Tamil Nadu constabulary has been deferred, authoritative sources said.
The State Chief Secretary and Home Secretary reached Delhi connected Thursday to enactment successful the Empanelment Committee Meeting (ECM) convened by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC). However, the gathering was postponed owed to administrative reasons, the sources said.
The ECM was called aft the State authorities sent a revised connection of DGP-rank officers successful Level-16 standard of wage for information to the apical post. After calling for immoderate missing information and inclusion of names excluded astatine the connection level, the UPSC had informed that the ECM would beryllium held connected March 20, 2026, the sources said.
The apical 3 officers successful the bid of seniority are Seema Agrawal, Rajeev Kumar and Sandeep Rai Rathore followed by others. Others successful the database are K. Vannia Perumal, Mahesh Kumar Aggarwal, G. Venkatraman (presently holding the station of in-charge DGP/HoPF), Vinit Dev Wankhade, Sanjay Mathur, S. Davidson Devasirvatham, Sandeep Mittal and B. Bala Naga Devi.
The ECM was meant to person discussed the eligibility of the officers by considering their qualifying experience, minimum residual work of six months, yearly confidential reports, vigilance cases, if any, pending oregon initiated, etc., to finalise a database of 3 names for the State authorities to take 1 serviceman and station him/her arsenic a regular DGP/HoPF with a minimum tenure of 2 years arsenic per the Supreme Court guidelines successful the Prakash Singh case.
While disposing of a contempt petition filed against the Tamil Nadu authorities for violating its guidelines successful the assignment of DGPs, the Supreme Court had directed the State connected February 12, 2026 to taxable its connection to the UPSC wrong 1 week. The UPSC was told to finalise the sheet of 3 officers successful 2 weeks.
In the earlier ECM, the UPSC had finalised the names of the apical 3 officers by bid of seniority. However, the State authorities did not station immoderate of them arsenic DGP/HoPF. The State Law Minister successful a connection connected ‘X’ level said that the 3 officers were not “acceptable” to the State government.
