Even though CISF boss OP Singh (IPS:1983: UP) retired in January this year, the selection of his successor remains in a logjam.
For central armed police forces (CAPFs), the situation is not new. It happened earlier also with RPF and CRPF. "This is not a healthy precedent at all and it is happening again and again in the CAPFs. This shows that the government has utter disregard for the importance of such an important paramilitary force," former BSF DG Prakash Singh (retired IPS) told a news agency.