HC issues rule on recruitment of police SIs
Monday, 12 July 2010
The High Court (HC) Sunday issued a rule upon the government to explain why the process of recruiting Police Sub-Inspectors without maintaining 30 per cent quota reserved for the descendants' of freedom fighters should not be declared illegal, reports UNB.
After hearing on a writ petition filed by seven dropout descendants of freedom fighters, HC division bench comprising Justice AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury and Justice Sheikh M Zakir Hossain issued the rule.
The bench also asked the government to show cause why a direction should not be given to maintain the 30 per cent quota reserved for the descendants' of freedom fighters in recruiting the vacant posts of Police Sub-Inspectors.
Hearing on the rule will be held on July 25. Secretaries to the Establishment, Law and Home Ministries, Inspector General of Police, Additional IGP (appointment) and three other police officials have been made respondents in the case.
Nazmul Huda and six other aggrieved petitioners submitted that on February 8 last year, government published circular inviting applications for recruiting police Sub-Inspectors.
Accordingly, some 971 candidates were selected for recruitment on June 8, after taking written, vive-voce and medical tests.
The results show that out of 971, merely 192 were selected from among the FF's descendants' which covers only 19.77 per cent instead of mandatory 30 per cent, depriving 99 wards of the freedom fighters.
After hearing on a writ petition filed by seven dropout descendants of freedom fighters, HC division bench comprising Justice AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury and Justice Sheikh M Zakir Hossain issued the rule.
The bench also asked the government to show cause why a direction should not be given to maintain the 30 per cent quota reserved for the descendants' of freedom fighters in recruiting the vacant posts of Police Sub-Inspectors.
Hearing on the rule will be held on July 25. Secretaries to the Establishment, Law and Home Ministries, Inspector General of Police, Additional IGP (appointment) and three other police officials have been made respondents in the case.
Nazmul Huda and six other aggrieved petitioners submitted that on February 8 last year, government published circular inviting applications for recruiting police Sub-Inspectors.
Accordingly, some 971 candidates were selected for recruitment on June 8, after taking written, vive-voce and medical tests.
The results show that out of 971, merely 192 were selected from among the FF's descendants' which covers only 19.77 per cent instead of mandatory 30 per cent, depriving 99 wards of the freedom fighters.