Chandigarh: The UNI Public Service Commission (UPSC) will hold a meeting that is widely awaited for the election of the permanent Punjab police chief in New Delhi on Tuesday.
On September 30, the Punjab government has sent a panel of 10 Arsc IPS officers to UPSC.
Now, the UPSC will choose the name of the three IPS officers who are most qualified, based on the achievements of seniority, in the meeting and send these names to the state government.
Finally, prerogative the state government to choose one of three police officers to lead their police.
IPS officers whose names are included in the previous panel were sent on September 30 by the Punjab government to UPSC including those who now lead DGP Siddharth Chattopadhyaya (1986-Batch), Dinkar Gupta (1987-Batch) (1987-batch), MK Tiwari (1987-batch) , VK Bhawra (1987-Batch), Prabodh Kumar (1988-Batch), Rohit Choudhary (1988-Batch), Iqbal Preet Singh Sahota (1988-Batch), Sanjeev Kalra (1989-Batch), Parag Jain (1989-Batch) , and barjinder kumar uppal (1991-batch).
Among other things, five officers fought next year – Tiwari (February 28), Chattopadhyaya and Choudhary (March 31), UPPAL (May 31) and Sahota (30 August).
After Chararjit Singh Channi replaced Captain Amarinder Singh as the main minister in September, he chose Sahota as officiating DGP on September 25 to permanent DGP appointed through the UPSC process.
Then the head of the Permanent State Police Gupta was sent during leave.
The appointment of Sahota was strongly opposed by the President of the Punjab Congress Navjot Singh Sidhu on the ground that he (sahota) was the Head of the Case of Sitrile who was investigating in 2015 who had captured two innocent Sikh but had to leave them later.
Finally, Sidhu succeeded and Sahota was replaced by Chatttopadhyaya as officiating DGP on December 17.