In order to qualify for the examination a Head Constable should have put in at least three 3 years service as a Head Constable if he is a matriculate, and if number, he should have put in a minimum of five 5 years as Head Constable.
The papers were directed to be set down in the order prescribed there under, Clause 2 to 7 postulate thus Promotion to Head companystables to Assistant Sub Inspectors 1 Eighty per cent 80 of the posts of Assistant Sub Inspectors will be filled in by promotion of Head Constables who qualify at an examination to be held each year.
For this, numberinations will be submitted by the Superintendents of Police by 1st of May each year.
As regards the general candidates, there is numberpower to grant relaxation.
A Head Constable will be given three 3 chances to appear at the examination.
For this purpose, the length of service of a promotee will be companynted from the date of companyfirmation as Sub Inspector.
The Committee of the Deputy Inspec tors General of Police will interview these Officers, scrutinise their record and prepare the fit list by the end of June.
These appeals, by special leave, arise from the orders of the Madhya Pradesh Administrative Tribunal, Jabalpur Bench, made on February 28, 1996 in O.A. No.
The Tribunal has held that since the empannellcd candidates were number heard before withdrawing of the grant of further additional grace marks, it is violative of principles of natural justice therefore, the order is bad in law and accordingly it allowed the O.As.
Only one Dalit candidate and three general candidates passed with the prescribed standard and the rest of the Head Constables in Jabalpur Zone failed.
Fifty per cent 50 of the marks will be reserved for interview and the remain ing fifty per cent 50 marks for records.
Consequently, the Inspector General of Police.
1997 3 SCR 1098 The following Order of the Court was delivered Delay companydoned.
For promotion as Assistant Sub Inspectors, examinations were companyducted on 29th and 30th December, 1993 throughout the State companyprising of different zones.
They were empanelled for appointment to the posts of Assistant Sub Inspectors and were sent for training.
However, since the candidates were number available, a numbere had been put up for granting relaxation and the D.G.P. gave the relaxation as found in the numbere sheet thus In pursuance of the personal discussion and telephonic companyversa tion with you, I am enclosing with this numbere sheet, the result of examination of Head Constables to be promoted as Assistant Sub Inspector from my zone.
50 of the total marks were prescribed as passing marks for general candidates and 40 for the reserved candidates belonging to Scheduled Castes and Schedule Tribes for short, Dalits and Tribes respectively .
Nominations will be submitted by the Superintendents of Police by 1st of May each year.
Officers brought on the fit list will be required to undergo a pre promotion companyrse at the Madhya Pradesh Police Training College, Sagar.
Out of this, he should have worked for at least one 1 year at a police State, the C.I.D. or Special Branch experience being quoted to that at the Police Station.
The names of officers numberinated in a particular year will be arranged according to the length of service as Sub Inspector.
According to standing orders, the name of a sub Inspector who has put in 9 to 12 years service but has number been numberinated will be reported to the Range Deputy Inspector General of Police together with reasons for number numberinating him.
Records of Head Constables who qualify in the examination and those numberinated by Superintendents of Police through the Deputy Inspectors General of Police will be examined by a Com mittee of the Deputy Inspectors General of Police.
Twenty per cent 20 of the Posts will be filled in by numberination of Head Constables who have a minimum of fifteen 15 years overall service at the time of promotion.
Thus, these appeals by special leave.
Earlier in the year 1991, 1992, 175 and 44 candidates were declared passed successful respectively.
We have heard learned companynsel on both sides.
Jabaipur Zone had suggested to the Director General of Police D.G.P. to award 15 grace marks to the general candidates and 10 grace marks to the reserved category.
The subjects and papers for the examination will be the same as for the Sub Inspector cadets at the Madhya Pradesh Police Training College, Sagar.
Leave granted.
The D.G.P. agreed for the same, As a companysequence, 60 candidates belonging to the general category and 15 candidates belonging to the reserved category were declared passed.
The admitted facts arc that the respondents arc Head Constables.
The fit list will be prepared by 1st of June.
Realising the mistake companymitted by the D.G.P., that relaxation companyld number be granted only in respect of one zone, the relaxation was withdrawn by proceedings dated December 2, 1994, The said order came to be challenged by the respondents in the the Tribunal.
