The Haryana government has recommended central deputation of seven IPS officers after obtaining vigilance clearance from the Director General of state Vigilance Bureau (VB).
The officer are Sandeep Khirwar (ADGP, law and order), OP Narwal (DIG, law and order), Kuldeep Singh (DIG, VB), Sulochana Gajraj (SP, SCB), Rajesh Duggal (SP, Palwal), Abhishek Jorwal (ADC, Governor) and Rajender Kumar Meena (SP, IT).
The state government recently communicated to the Union Ministry of Home Affairs for consideration of these names to fill up the vacant posts on central deputation. The Vigilance Bureau has also informed the state police that no inquiry is pending against five more IPS officers —Alok Kumar Roy, SK Jain, Dr CS Rao, Charu Bali and Maneesh Chaudhary. Roy and Jain are 1991-batch IPS officers while Rao and Bali belong to the 1995 batch. Maneesh Chaudhary is a 2005-batch officer of Haryana cadre.
Five IPS officers from Haryana cadre are already on central deputation. They include former state police chief and 1988-batch IPS officer Manoj Yadava who is currently Director General, National Human Rights Commission. Among other IPS officers, Sibash Kabiraj is looking after the responsibility of Regional Passport Officer (RPO) in the Union Ministry of External Affairs (MEA). KV Ramana (RAW), Ashwin (CBI) and Manisha Chaudhary (Chandigarh SSP) are also on central deputation. A state police services (HPS) officer Simardeep Singh is a group commander of Special Protection Group (SPG).
Meanwhile, the Haryana Police is looking for promotion of its four IPS officers to the rank of IGP and DIG and granting selection grade to the officers from 2005, 2009 and 2010 batches.
According to the officials, currently, only two IPS officers are holding selection grade against the availability of 12 posts. The officials also said that IPS officers — Sulochana Gajraj, Sangeeta Kalia, Rajesh Duggal and Surender Pal Singh — have become eligible for grant of selection grade with effect from January 1 this year.
