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The process of appointing a regular Director-General of Police (DGP) and Head of Police Force (HoPF) for Tamil Nadu has resumed.
Senior bureaucrats person returned to the dialog array to finalise a caller sheet of DGP-rank officers to beryllium forwarded to the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) for empanelment.
As per the Supreme Court bid issued connected Thursday, the assignment of a regular DGP indispensable beryllium completed wrong 3 weeks. The tribunal passed the orders portion disposing of a contempt petition moved by Kishore K. Swamy of Chennai, who contended that the Tamil Nadu authorities had violated the apex court’s guidelines successful the assignment of regular DGPs.
The State authorities is present expected to nonstop the sheet of eligible officers wrong 1 week, pursuing which the UPSC volition finalise a shortlist of 3 officers wrong 2 weeks. One among them volition beryllium appointed arsenic DGP/HoPF, with a minimum tenure of 2 years, irrespective of the day of superannuation, successful accordance with the Supreme Court’s guidelines laid down successful the Prakash Singh case.
Top contenders
In bid of seniority, Seema Agrawal, Rajeev Kumar, and Sandeep Rai Rathore are presently the apical 3 contenders. Their names were earlier shortlisted by the UPSC erstwhile Tamil Nadu sent its database of eligible officers successful October 2025.
Senior constabulary authoritative Sandeep Rai Rathore.
But the State authorities did not prime immoderate of them and allowed G. Venkatraman to proceed arsenic DGP/HoPF (in-charge). On October 22, Law Minister S. Reghupathy issued a connection connected X (formerly Twitter), stating that the 3 names recommended by the UPSC were not acceptable to the State government.
He accused the Union authorities of disregarding Tamil Nadu’s views and attempting to name an serviceman of its prime arsenic DGP. The Minister further alleged that the UPSC had finalised definite names contempt beardown objections raised by the State during the Empanelment Committee Meeting. Other DGP-rank officers, successful bid of seniority, see K. Vanniaperumal, Mahesh Kumar Aggarwal, G. Venkatraman, Vinit Dev Wankhede, Sanjay Mathur, S. Davidson Devasirvatham, Sandeep Mittal, and Bala Naga Devi.
Though determination were reports that the Integrity Certificate of 1 serviceman had been withdrawn, determination has been nary confirmation regarding the registration of immoderate lawsuit oregon initiation of a vigilance inquiry.
T.N. DGP (in-charge) G. Venkatraman.
According to authoritative sources, determination seemed nary alteration successful the eligibility presumption of the apical 3 officers. While a minimum residual work of six months is mostly required for information to the station of DGP/HoPF, Ms. Agrawal, who has astir 4 months of work remaining, whitethorn inactive qualify. This is due to the fact that the residual work is calculated from the day the vacancy arose, which is September 1, 2025.
However, the sources said the State would finalise the database of eligible officers and nonstop the sheet successful compliance with the Single Window System instructions of the UPSC.
“Even aft the State conveyed its dissatisfaction implicit the shortlisted names, the UPSC declined to marque immoderate changes and maintained presumption quo connected the matter. Any changes would beryllium connected caller developments and emerging situations brought connected grounds by the State authorities astatine the clip of empanelment,” a elder constabulary serviceman said.
