The Supreme Court on Wednesday (September 2, 2026) sought an evidence from Union Residence Secretary Govind Mohan on the implementation of its Might 2025 judgment directing the Centre to progressively cut back the deputation of Indian Police Service (IPS) officers to senior posts within the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs).
Whereas listening to the contempt petition filed by retired CAPF officers, Justice Ujjal Bhuyan orally noticed that there was a “robust foyer” and the cadre officers of CAPFs are “utterly stifled”.
“Do you assume there are not any competent officers in CAPFs to carry accountable positions? That is completely flawed. There are officers who’ve served over 25 years in service, they’re defending the borders, they’re additionally preventing for us, supreme sacrifices they’ve made. There’s a robust foyer there… cadre officers are utterly stifled,” he mentioned.
On Might 23, 2025, a Bench of Justice A.S. Oka and Justice Bhuyan had dominated that the deputation posts of IPS officers within the Senior Administrative Grade (SAG) or as much as the rank of Inspector Normal in CAPFs must be “progressively diminished over a time frame, say inside an outer restrict of two years.” Justice Oka has since retired.
The court docket additionally dominated that Group A officers of CAPFs are “Organised Companies” for “all functions” and requested for a time-bound evaluation of cadre and repair guidelines in six months. An Organised Group A Service (OGAS) is a structured, cadre-based Group A civil service with outlined hierarchy, promotion pathways and cadre management, as distinct from remoted or common civil posts.
In an affidavit, Mr. Mohan knowledgeable the Supreme Court docket that 46 IPS officers have been introduced on deputation to the CAPFs as much as the SAG stage after the court docket’s 2025 judgment.
Within the affidavit, the Union Residence Ministry mentioned it had taken a sequence of steps to implement the Supreme Court docket’s instructions, together with initiating cadre evaluations throughout all CAPFs, inspecting the difficulty of IPS deputation, and enterprise statutory modifications. The Ministry famous that following the dismissal of its evaluation petition on October 28, 2025, all CAPFs have been directed to submit detailed cadre evaluation proposals, which have since been examined by the Ministry and forwarded to the Division of Personnel and Coaching (DoPT) with the approval of the Residence Minister.
The affidavit was filed pursuant to a July 28 order of a Bench comprising Justices Ujjal Bhuyan and Atul S. Chandurkar, which directed the Secretaries of the Ministry and DoPT to position on file the steps taken for the implementation of the Might 2025 judgment.
In keeping with the affidavit, the Border Safety Power (BSF) acquired the best variety of IPS officers on deputation after the judgment, with 13 officers, adopted by the Central Industrial Safety Power (CISF) with 11, the Central Reserve Police Power (CRPF) with 9, the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) with seven, and the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) with six.
DoPT advised the court docket that cadre evaluation proposals for the CRPF, BSF, CISF, ITBP and SSB have been despatched by the Ministry between July 27 and August 3, 2026. The proposals have been examined in accordance with the federal government’s cadre evaluation tips and forwarded to the Division of Expenditure (DoE), together with DoPT’s observations and suggestions on August 17. DoPT mentioned that after feedback are acquired from the DoE, the proposals might be positioned earlier than the Cadre Overview Committee headed by the Cupboard Secretary, whose suggestions would subsequently be thought of for approval by the competent authority.
The subsequent date of the listening to is September 22.
To bypass the 2025 judgment, the federal government enacted the CAPFs (Normal Administration) Act, 2026, which was printed within the Gazette on April 9. Nonetheless, 5 writ petitions difficult the laws have since been filed and are scheduled for listening to earlier than the Supreme Court docket on November 18.
The Act, handed by the Parliament on April 2, states that in all CAPFs, 50% of the entire posts within the rank of Inspector Normal, no less than 67% posts within the rank of Further Director Normal, and all posts within the rank of Particular Director Normal and Director Normal shall be stuffed by IPS officers on deputation. Till now, such postings have been carried out based mostly on government orders. The 50% cap on DIG posts, to be stuffed by Group A CAPF officers, was additionally carried out away with, paving the best way for increased proportion of IPS deputation.
Revealed – September 02, 2026 11:05 pm IST
