Bypassed for the post of Punjab Police chief,
the state's senior-most 1985-batch IPS officer Mohammad Mustafa has announced
that he may petition the Supreme Court over being “ignored by the UPSC†in the
panel, despite fulfilling all the three UPSC criteria. Whenever Mustafa moves the SC, his may be the
first case against 'favoritism' that the SC tried to curb in the appointment of
state DGP through its clear verdict recently. Mustafa has reportedly said he was not
perturbed that he was not appointed the DGP but he was upset that he was not
even on the panel. “It is not a quest for being the DGP anymore. This is the
question of my honor. It is a stigma that I did not appear on the panel.†He is particularly annoyed and disappointed
with Chief Secretary Karan Avtar Singh and the outgoing DGP Suresh Arora, who
attended the UPSC meeting to finalize the panel of names. “They raised issues
having no relevance to my professional capability, like the political career of
my wife.†Mustafa’s wife, Razia Sultana, is a minister in CM Amarinder Singh’s
Cabinet.
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IPS officer Md Mustafa to petition SC
By IndianMandarins - 2019-02-10 12:15:47
Bypassed for the post of Punjab Police chief,
the state's senior-most 1985-batch IPS officer Mohammad Mustafa has announced
that he may petition the Supreme Court over being “ignored by the UPSC†in the
panel, despite fulfilling all the three UPSC criteria.
Whenever Mustafa moves the SC, his may be the first case against 'favoritism' that the SC tried to curb in the appointment of state DGP through its clear verdict recently.
Mustafa has reportedly said he was not perturbed that he was not appointed the DGP but he was upset that he was not even on the panel. “It is not a quest for being the DGP anymore. This is the question of my honor. It is a stigma that I did not appear on the panel.â€
He is particularly annoyed and disappointed with Chief Secretary Karan Avtar Singh and the outgoing DGP Suresh Arora, who attended the UPSC meeting to finalize the panel of names. “They raised issues having no relevance to my professional capability, like the political career of my wife.†Mustafa’s wife, Razia Sultana, is a minister in CM Amarinder Singh’s Cabinet.
