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Retired Central Armed Police Force (CAPF) officers person filed a contempt petition successful the Supreme Court against the Union Home Secretary pursuing the non-implementation of the court’s 2025 ruling to “progressively reduce” the deputation of Indian Police Service (IPS) officers successful the Senior Administrative Grade oregon up to the fertile of Inspector General (IG) successful CAPFs.
The petition has been filed against Union Home Secretary Govind Mohan by 4 retired officials – Mahender Singh Deo, Radha Mohan Meena, Vikesh Kumar and Sanjay Prakash, the archetypal petitioner successful the case. The petitions were filed connected December 3, 6 and 9.
On May 23, 2025, the Supreme Court ruled that Group A Executive Cadre officers of CAPFs are Organised Group A Services (OGAS) for each purposes. Besides progressively reducing the IPS deputation successful CAPFs up to the level of IGs successful the adjacent 2 years, the tribunal asked for time-bound reappraisal of cadre and work rules successful six months.
The Union Home Ministry, the cadre-controlling authorization of some the CAPFs and the IPS, challenged the judgement but connected October 28, 2025, the apical tribunal dismissed the reappraisal petition, making the ruling final.
On December 26, the Ministry wrote to the Director General of each CAPFs – the Central Reserve Police Force, Border Security Force, Sashastra Seema Bal, Indo Tibetan Border Police, Central Industrial Security Force and the Assam Rifles to undertake a broad reappraisal of Group A cadres and taxable elaborate proposals to the Ministry.
A CAPF authoritative pointed retired that the May 23 judgement of the Supreme Court not lone asked the Ministry to reappraisal the cadre rules for the Group A officials but besides asked to reappraisal the work rules wrong a play of six months that efficaciously assistance them the presumption of OGAS.
Cadre reappraisal is typically done each 5 years to estimation aboriginal quality resources requirements, program recruitment to debar aboriginal promotional blocks, to harmonise the functional needs with the morganatic vocation expectations of its members and to heighten the effectiveness of the service. The past cadre reappraisal of CAPFs was done successful 2016.
Following the Ministry’s letter, the DGs of each CAPFs constituted interior committees comprising IPS and CAPF officials to finalise the cadre review.
The Ministry connected November 27, 2025, wrote to each CAPFs with a petition to analyse the Supreme Court judgement and “furnish detailed/consequent enactment that needs to beryllium taken for implementation of the tribunal bid and impact/difficulties/financial accusation if any, portion implementing the order.”
“The lateral introduction of IPS officers successful CAPFs proceed contempt SC directives and determination is nary effort to amend the work rules,” said the official.
Presently, 20% posts successful the fertile of Deputy Inspector General and 50% posts successful the fertile of IG successful CAPFs are reserved for IPS officers. The court’s determination is meant to importantly trim the IPS dominance successful CAPFs. Around 13,000 CAPF officers are apt to payment from the judgement starring to faster promotions and flooded issues of stagnation.
