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2019 Supreme(SC) 280

RANJAN GOGOI, L. NAGESWARA RAO, SANJIV KHANNA
PRAKASH SINGH – Appellant
Versus
UNION OF INDIA – Respondent


Advocates:
For Respondent(s)/ Applicant(s): Pinky Anand, ASG UoI Saudamini Sharma, Sumit Teterwal, Hemant Arya, Kirti Dua, C. Papta, Snidha Mehra, Tanisha Samanta, B.V. Balaram Das,
for UPSC : Naresh Kaushik, Vardhman Kaushik, B. Purushothama Reddy, Manoj Joshi, Omung Raj Gupta, Devik Singh, Rahul Sharma, Rebbeca Dais, Siddhant Manral, Lalitha Kaushik,
State of Chhattisgarh : Sumeer Sodhi, Aman Nandrajog, Ashish Tiwari, Surya Kamal Mishra, Adv.
State of U.P. : Swarupama Chaturvedi,
State of H.P. : Abhinav Mukerji, Bihu Sharma, Purnima Krishna, Pratishtha Vij, Rachana Srivastava, Umme Salma, Adv.
State of Karnataka : V.N. Raghupathy, Parikshit P. Angadi, Md. Apzal Ansari, Manendra Pal Gupta, Adv.
State of Gujarat : Hemantika Wahi, Puja Singh, Adv.
State of Meghalaya : Ranjan Mukherjee, Upendra Mishra, K.V. Kharlyngdoh, Adv.
State of Jharkhand : Jayesh Gaurav, Gopal Prasad,
State of Mizoram : Siddhesh Kotwal, Bansuri Swaraj, Raghunatha Sethupathy, P. Venkat Reddy, Prashtan Tyagi, M/s. Venkat Palwai Law Associates,
State of T.N. : Balaji Srinivasan, AAG, T.N. M. Yogesh Kanna, S. Partha Sarathi,
State of Haryana : Anil Grover, AAG, Haryana Satish Kumar, Sanjay Kumar Visen,
State of Assam : Shuvodeep Roy, Rijuk Sarkar, Adv.
State of Tripura : Shuvodeep Roy, Kabir Shankar Bose, Rijuk Sarkar,
State of Bihar : Gopal Singh, Manish Kumar, Shivam Singh, Aditya Raina, Kumar Milind, Udian Sharma, Shreyas Jain, Adv.
State of J&K : M. Shoeb Alam, Ujjwal Singh, Gautam Prabhakar, Mojahid Karim Khan,
State of West Bengal : Suhaan Mukerji, Astha Sharma, Amit Verma, Abhishek Manchanda, Dimple Nagpal, M/s. PLR Chambers And Co., Prasanth P.,
State of Kerala : G. Prakash, Jishnu M.L., Priyanka Prakash, Beena Prakash, Adv.
State of Punjab : Uttara Babbar, Manan Bansal, Kaveeta Wadia, P.V. Dinesh, Anil Katiyar, Gunnam Venkateswara Rao, P. Parmeswaran, M/s. S. Narain & Co., Kamlendra Mishra, P.V. Yogeswaran, T.V. George, Rajesh Srivastava, Sumita Hazarika, Dharmendra Kumar Sinha, Ashok Mathur, B. Balaji, Tara Chandra Sharma, Anip Sachthey, Anuvrat Sharma, Lakshmi Raman Singh, Anitha Shenoy, Aniruddha P. Mayee, C.K. Sasi, T. Harish Kumar, R. Ayyam Perumal, Anil Shrivastav, Merusagar Samantaray, Abhishek, Abha R. Sharma

JUDGMENT

I.A. NO.24616 OF 2019

1. On an earlier occasion, this Court had the occasion to deal with another application for clarification of this Court’s order dated 3rd July, 2018 [i.e. I.A. No.144172 of 2018] though in a different context. While passing the order on the said I.A. on 16.1.2019, this Court referring to the principles underlying the judgment of this Court in Prakash Singh & Ors. vs. Union of India & Ors., (2006) 8 SCC 1 had specifically noticed the relevant directions issued under Article 142 of the Constitution of India, which are in the following terms:

Selection and minimum tenure of DGP.

(2) The Director General of Police of the State shall be selected by the State Government from amongst the three senior-most officers of the Department who have been empanelled for promotion to that rank by the Union Public Service Commission on the basis of their length of service, very good record and range of experience for heading the police force. And, once he has been selected for the job, he should have a minimum tenure of at least two years irrespective of his date of superannuation. The DGP may, however, be relieved of his responsibilities by the State Government acting i




















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