IT Chandigarh

Chandigarh: The Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) today extended the stay on promotions of inspectors, general and SC category, of the Chandigarh Police.

The applicants, Yash Pal and others working as SI , were recruited as probationary ASIs during 1986 -1989. They belong to the general category and said they were aggrieved at the action of the UT to grant promotion to SIs belonging to the SCs. They alleged these police personnel were being granted promotion beyond the prescribed quota of 14 per cent.

The total cadre strength of inspectors of the UT police is 50. Out of the 50 posts, 10 per cent, five posts, could be filled by direct recruitment. They averred that out of these five posts, one would be reserved for the SC category and of the remaining 45 posts, six would go to police personnel belonging to the SC category.

They claimed that the tentative list of seniority showed that eight inspectors of the SC category were already occupying the reserved posts.

The court stayed the promotion of police personnel belonging to the SC category on August 14, 2007. Thereafter, a reply was filed by the respondents belonging to the SC category, wherein it was said that as per the rooster by the government of Punjab, seven posts were reserved for the SC category whereas only five were granted promotion on the basis of reservation.
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Land Grab Bid

Mohali: SAS Nagar deputy commissioner H.I.S. Grewal has marked an inquiry into the alleged bid by Jasbir Singh Sandhu to grab on a piece of land in Karoran village.

The complainant, Kuldip Singh, a resident of Nayagaon, had alleged that Jasbir Singh was trying to grab the land with the support of IG Sanjiv Gupta.

The DC has received a complaint from Kuldip Singh, alleging that revenue officials of SAS Nagar had “forged” and “tampered with” the revenue records and provided false information to the SSP of Fatehgarh Sahib during the course of an inquiry conducted by him in the case. The DC reportedly visited the site and has marked an inquiry into these allegations to the Mohali SDM. Sources, however, said the revenue officials had told the DC that they did not assist the SSP during the inquiry. The SSP reportedly came to the disputed site with revenue officials from Fatehgarh Sahib. In his report, the SSP had given a clean chit to Sanjiv Gupta.

Kuldip Singh alleged that while preparing the report, the revenue officials forged the revenue records and showed that the total land in khasra No. 232/1/2 was 685 kanal 2 marlas when actually it was 795 kanal 16 marla. “Where has the 110 kanal 14 marla of land gone,” he asked in his complaint. He said “another forgery committed by the officials in connivance with Jasbir Singh is that they have illegally marked /allotted ‘gattha numbers’ on the latha prepared by them on October 27, 2007. These markings do not exist in the original records. According to rules, these officials cannot mark or a lot gattha numbers.”
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