HEMANT NAGRALE, a 1987-batch IPS officer, was on Thursday given a further cost because the Director General of Police (DGP), Maharashtra. The Maha Vikas Aghadi authorities relieved Subodh Jaiswal, a 1985-batch IPS officer, who headed the state police from February 2019, after he was appointed as DG CISF by the central authorities on December 30.
Though Nagrale (58) has been given a further cost, he’s prone to be formally made the state DGP as soon as the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) panel clears his appointment, as per process. Nagrale’s senior, Sanjay Pandey, a 1986-batch officer, was the frontrunner, however was handed over.
Jaiswal handed over the cost to Nagrale on Thursday on the DGP workplace on the primary flooring of the state police headquarters in Colaba.
An order issued by the state authorities on Thursday confirmed that Nagrale had been given the extra cost of the state DGP submit as Jaiswal was relieved to go on central deputation.
Nagrale, who had served because the Navi Mumbai police commissioner, performed an vital half in transporting these injured within the 26/11 terror assaults of Mumbai in 2008 to hospitals. In October 2018, he was elevated to the DG (authorized & technical) rank, and was given the accountability of taking care of the forensic science laboratories throughout the state.
As per Supreme Court pointers, for the submit of DGP, the state authorities has to ship a listing of officers of the DG rank to UPSC. A 3-member UPSC committee then decides on three names relying on seniority and benefit and sends it to the state authorities for consideration. The authorities lastly decides from the beneficial names.
A Home division official mentioned that usually names of officers are despatched upfront when the DGP is about to retire. Since on this case, the DGP went on central deputation, the state authorities is now within the means of sending names of officers to UPSC. Sources mentioned Nagrale’s identify is probably to function within the checklist of three the UPSC committee will ship to the state. “Just to ensure we are not caught off-guard in case UPSC does not include Nagrale in the panel of three names, he has only been given additional charge. Once his name figures in the list, which it is likely to as he is the second seniormost officer, he will be formally made the DGP,” a Home division official mentioned.
He added that the extra cost may even be certain that there is no such thing as a concern of litigation by different aspirant officers, who might have felt snubbed by the federal government.
Earlier when Jaiswal, who had been posted with the Research & Analysis Wing and was additionally the Mumbai police commissioner, was posted as state DGP, it was believed that officers of the instantly following batches would not be in competition to steer the state police as Jaiswal retires in 2022.
However, Jaiswal’s central deputation opened up the sphere to his rapid junior officers. Jaiswal’s deputation adopted months of uneasy relations between him and the state authorities over the switch of IPS officers, particularly after his refusal to log out on a set of transfers final yr.
