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The assignment of a regular Director General of Police and Head of the Police Force successful the Tamil Nadu constabulary is acceptable to beryllium delayed further.
The State authorities has written to the Union Public Service Commission (UPDC) requesting postponement of the Empanelment Committee Meeting (ECM) which was scheduled successful Delhi connected May 11, 2026.
In a connection sent to the UPSC, the State said the beingness of the Chief Secretary and the Home Secretary successful the State was perfectly indispensable successful the adjacent fewer days.
Apparently referring to the ongoing governmental developments and stalemate successful the enactment of a caller government, a apical authoritative requested the UPSC to postpone the gathering to immoderate different date, preferably successful the past week of May.
The contiguous DGP/HoPF Sandeep Rai Rathore, who was appointed by the Election Commission of India replacing G. Venkatraman who was in-charge of the post, would proceed to caput the unit till a UPSC-empanelled main of constabulary is appointed arsenic per the Supreme Court guidelines successful the Prakash Singh case, constabulary sources said connected Thursday.
The ECM convened by the UPSC is led by its chairman, the Union Home Secretary, the DGP of 1 of the Central Armed Paramilitary Forces (not belonging to the Tamil Nadu cadre), the Chief Secretary and Home Secretary of the State concerned.
This is the 3rd clip that the ECM is being postponed. First it was convened connected March 20, 2026, and was deferred owed to administrative reasons and past connected April 23, 2026, since it was polling time for the Assembly elections successful Tamil Nadu.
The DGP-rank officers who would beryllium considered for empanelment successful the bid of seniority are Seema Agrawal, Rajeev Kumar and Sandeep Rai Rathore followed by K. Vannia Perumal, Mahesh Kumar Aggarwal, G. Venkatraman and others. Ms Agrawal is owed to discontinue from work adjacent month, the sources said.
