'Police transfer arbitrary'

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI, AUG. 1. Syed Shahabuddin, former MP, today questioned the Centre's move to requisition the services of three senior IPS officers belonging to the Tamil Nadu cadre for posting in Delhi and felt such ``arbitrary procedures undermine the morale of the services.''

In a letter to the Union Home Minister, Mr. L.K. Advani, he said the move raised a number of questions both of substance and of propriety. He said IPS officers do not belong to a Central cadre or Central Secretariat service but to the State cadre and such officers serve the Centre only on deputation outside the State which normally was with the consent of the officer or cadre- controlling authority.

Mr. Shahabuddin, a former IFS officer, said that for a senior assignment at the Centre, the Union Government could scan the horizon and identify a particular officer as the fittest person for a particular job and then request, and ``indeed press the State Government concerned to release him for deputation, if there is no administrative reason for acceding to the request.'' However, in the case of three Tamil Nadu officers, there was neither an offer or a request, nor were there particular posts for which these officers appear to have been selected. ``Indeed the impression is that they are being shunted as a matter of punishment.''

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