New Delhi: The lack of appropriate choice in Agubut cadres from an officer with a “right seniority with a balanced experience” for the Delhi police chief led the center to appoint IPS officers Gujarat Rakesh Asthana in “public interest”, the Delhi High Court was told on Thursday.
“The main consideration” is Delhi is “witnessing the public order situation, the law and general order that is very challenging and the police issue, who not only has national security implications, but also international implications / cross borders”.
This requires officers “with exposure to the complexity of governance and who have knowledge of the nuances of the vast canvas”, the government said.
In a written statement submitted through Standing Counsel Amit Mahajan, the center said there were no errors that could be found in the appointment of Asthana as a city police commissioner that had been carried out in accordance with and after carefully following all applicable regulations and regulations.
The center highlights that “the best effort to find suitable IPS officers who have diverse and diverse experiences about the police in a broad country, the Central Investigation Agency, National Security or Paramilitary Forces” made in Agubad cadres, but “found after comprehensive examination of available options The experience of handling police “is not available.
“It feels like the experience needed to work and oversee the Investigation Agency of the Center / Paramilitary Forces and the police of a large country has a variety of politics and law and the problem of order is less in a collection of available officials,” Affidavit added.
Requesting “General Interest”, the center said the decision was made to have an officer who had experience in all the fields above to oversee Delhi police and to provide an effective police about the recent laws and order situation that appeared in the capital.
“Delhi as the capital city we have its own characteristic factors that are not in other commissia.
Every incident that occurs here has a distant impact and implications only throughout the country, but beyond the limits obtained.
This also distinguishes between the appointment of DGPS countries according to the decision SC in the case of Prakash Singh and the appointment of the Commissioner, adding that “certain minimum period requirements do not have an application for the appointment of the Union Regional Police Commissioner.” Affidavit argues that the petition by Sadre Alam, a lawyer, challenging the appointment is “misuse of legal processes and in reality It is the result of some private vendetta “.
It was conveyed that the pill in the service issue was unable to be entertained.
It added that the PIL, and the intervention of the NGO center for litigation of public interest in the appointment of asthana,” deserves to be dismissed at the cost of being exemplary “.
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