2018 (7) TMI 2205

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....018 and T.C. (C) Nos. 75, 76 of 2015, 57958 of 2018 or Appellant: Colin Gonsalves, Sr. Adv., Party-in-Person, Choudhary Ali Zia Kabir, Prakash Kumar Singh, Ambhoj Kumar Sinha, Jyoti Mendiratta, Prashant Bhushan, Rohit Kumar Singh, Shakti Vardhan, Amit Shukla, Kailash Chand, Shekhar G. Devasa, G.R. Mohan, Manish Tiwari and Luv Kumar, Advs. for Devasa & Co. For Respondents: K.K. Venugopal, Attorney General, Maninder Singh, Additional Solicitor General, Abhinav Mukherji, S.S. Shamshery, Ashwariya Bhati, Nidhi Gupta, Anil Grover, Assistant Advocate Generals, V. Mohana, Sr. Adv., Binu Tamta, S. Manuraj, Gopal Singh, Manish Kumar, Akanksha Choudhary, Bhupesh Narula, Aruna Mathur, Rachana Srivastava, Abhishek, Sayooj Mohandas M., Naman Kambo....

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.... Singh, S. Narain & Co., Kamlendra Mishra, Jayesh Gaurav, Anuvrat Sharma, Lakshmi Raman Singh, Anitha Shenoy, K.V. Jagdishvaran, G. Indira, B. Krishna Prasad, Mudit, Corporate Law Group, Shikhar Garg, Lhingneivah, T.V. George, D.S. Mahra, Sandeep Jha, Prerna Singh, Rajesh Srivastava, Sumita Hazarika, P. Venkat Reddy, Nishant Ramakantrao Katneshwarkar, Mohd. Waquas, Guntur Prabhakar, Haibam Babina, Shuvodeep Roy, Merusagar Samantaray, Salvador Santosh Rebello, Mamta Singh, T. Harish Kumar, R. Ayyam Perumal, Puja Singh, Sneha Prabhu Tendulkar, Pragya Garg, G.M. Kawoosa, M. Shoeb Alam, T.N. Rama Rao, Rituraj Biswas, Suhaan Mukerji, Prashant Tyagi, V.G. Pragasam, S. Prabhu Ramasubramanian, Vishakha, Deepa M. Kulkarni, Gopal Prasad, Ashok Mathur....

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.... the All India Services (Discipline and Appeal) Rules or following his conviction in a court of law in a criminal offence or in a case of corruption, or if he is otherwise incapacitated from discharging his duties. 2. It is submitted by Mr. K.K. Venugopal, learned Attorney General, that out of 29 States, only 5 States, namely, the States of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthan have approached the Union Public Service Commission for empanelment. The other States have not followed the direction. It is further urged by him that some of the States are adopting a method of appointing acting Director Generals of Police whereas such a concept is not perceptible from an analysis of the decision in Prakash Singh's ca....

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....States; (c) The State shall immediately appoint one of the persons from the panel prepared by the Union Public Service Commission; (d) None of the States shall ever conceive of the idea of appointing any person on the post of Director General of Police on acting basis for there is no concept of acting Director General of Police as per the decision in Prakash Singh's case (supra); (e) An endeavour has to be made by all concerned to see that the person who was selected and appointed as the Director General of Police continues despite his date of superannuation. However, the extended term beyond the date of superannuation should be a reasonable period. We say so as it has been brought to our notice that some of t....