Sixty Seven UT constables8217; selection quashed

Pronouncing the orders in an open court, the Bench observed: quot;A perusal of the relevant record indicates that relaxation on different counts was granted by the IGP to the Home Guard volunteers or those related to police officials. We have absolutely no doubt about the power of the IGP to grant relaxation under the PPRs, but that power has to be exercised in public interest and under special circumstances to be recorded in writing.

The record does not reveal as to what public interest was involved and what exceptional circumstances existed, among others, in the case of respondent numbers 36 and 38. Though official respondents have specifically mentioned in their written statement that respondent numbers 36 and 38 were granted relaxation on the ground of being outstanding sportsmen, this contention is not borne out from the record at allquot;.

Maintaining the relaxation to be against the quot;provisions contained in the PPRsquot;, the Bench observed: quot;We also do not appreciate the conduct of Baldev Singh, SP member of the selection board, in making an application for grant of age relaxation in respect of respondent number 38, being not in consonance with the office he holdsquot;.

Allowing the original application, the Bench observed: quot;The whole selection process has to be declared as vitiated on account of participation in the process of selection, under consideration, by some of the members of the selection board, having close relationship with some candidates, as well as selecting some who had not even appeared in the physical testquot;.

Challenging the selection, Surinder Singh and six others had earlier stated that the same was done quot;illegallyquot; and in an quot;arbitrary mannerquot;. Several selected candidates, they had added, were related to employees working in the Police Department. Some had cleared the physical test without even appearing. Respondents Rajiv Dutta, Satwinder Singh and Jit Kumar were selected even though they had failed to qualify the physical test. Arvind Kumar, they added, was selected subject to relaxation in chest measurement by the IGP though the same could not be granted.

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