The Madras High Court Bench here on Wednesday permitted the State Government to go ahead with a panel of names of 117 Inspectors of Police drawn by the Home Department on November 10 after finding them eligible to be promoted as Deputy Superintendents of Police for the year 2015-16.
Justice S.S. Sundar modified an interim order passed by him on March 8, directing the Home Secretary not to finalise the promotion panel, after it was represented that many eligible Inspectors had been affected due to the order passed on a writ petition filed by an Inspector whose name did not figure in the list. “Any order that may be passed during pendency of a case is only to preserve the rights of the parties during the pendency of the lis and cannot affect others who are not parties. Hence, the earlier order requires modification,” the judge said and directed the State to keep one post alone vacant until the disposal of a writ petition filed by G. Chakkaravarthy.
He ordered that the seniority of the writ petitioner should also not be affected in case if he succeeds in the case filed against a show cause notice issued to him by the Home Secretary on September 19 in connection with a disciplinary proceeding and gets a chance to be promoted in the future.
