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Opposition members connected Monday (March 16, 2026) questioned the government’s volition to introduce a Bill successful the ongoing league of the Parliament to codify the deputation of Indian Police Service (IPS) officers successful the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF), contempt a Supreme Court ruling to progressively trim IPS deputation up to the fertile of Inspector General successful the CAPF and assistance them organised radical stature.
In this backdrop, Congress person Rahul Gandhi connected Monday met Ajay Malik, Assistant Commandant of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), who mislaid a limb successful an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blast during an anti-Maoist cognition successful Jharkhand connected March 1. Mr. Malik who was airlifted to the AIIMS, Delhi had to acquisition amputation and is presently recuperating astatine the CRPF’s campy infirmary successful Delhi. He joined the CRPF successful 2011 arsenic an AC and 15 years on, remains astatine the aforesaid post.
The CAPF officers person argued that contempt starring operations from the beforehand and respective of them having been killed successful the enactment of action, they look vocation stagnation and astir times the archetypal promotion comes lone aft 15-18 years of service.
Presently, 20% of posts successful the fertile of Deputy Inspector General (DIG) and 50% of posts successful the fertile of Inspector General (IG) successful the CAPF are reserved for IPS officers done an enforcement order. The full spot of the CAPF is astir 10 lakh, which includes 13,000 Group A cadre officers. Parliament was precocious informed that determination are astir 93,000 vacancies successful each ranks successful the CAPF.
On May 23, 2025, the Supreme Court ruled that Group A Executive Cadre officers of the CAPF are Organised Group A Services (OGAS) for each purposes. Besides progressively reducing the IPS deputation successful the CAPF up to the level of I-Gs successful the adjacent 2 years, the tribunal asked for a time-bound reappraisal of cadre and work rules successful six months. The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) challenged the judgement but connected October 28, 2025 the apex tribunal dismissed the reappraisal petition, making the ruling final. The MHA is the cadre controlling authorization of some the CAPF and IPS.
Contempt petition
After respective erstwhile CAPF officials moved a contempt petition successful the tribunal against the Union Home Secretary for not implementing the Supreme Court order, the MHA informed the tribunal connected March 9 that it is considering “appropriate statutory and regulatory intervention.” On March 10, the Union Cabinet approved the Central Armed Forces (General Administration) Bill, 2026.
Leader of Opposition successful the Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to instrumentality the SC bid stating that a imaginable ‘statutory intervention’ aimed astatine circumventing the judicial pronouncements are profoundly troubling. “Such a determination would not lone undermine the regularisation of instrumentality and law propriety but would besides demoralise a cadre that serves arsenic a pillar of our nationalist security,” Mr. Kharge said.
He said the CAPF officers signifier the backbone of borderline management, interior information and extortion of captious installations and run successful the astir gruelling conditions to guarantee the information of our citizens. “It is, therefore, a substance of profound interest that these dedicated officers were compelled to question judicial involution to unafraid basal fairness successful their work conditions,” helium said.
Aam Aadmi Party’s Sanjay Singh raised the contented successful the Rajya Sabha saying IPS officers should not beryllium deputed successful the CAPF arsenic compared to an Assistant Commandant and a Deputy Commandant who instrumentality astatine slightest 15 years and 18 years for their archetypal and 2nd promotions, an IPS serviceman gets 4 promotions during the aforesaid fig of years.
Retired CAPF officials and the families of serving officials are besides readying a protestation astatine Jantar Mantar successful Delhi connected March 23.
