PRAKASH SINGH AND OTHERS Vs. UNION OF INDIA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) I.A. No. 144172/2018 filed on behalf of the State of Punjab for modification of the order of this Court, dated 3.7.2018 is being taken up, as the order passed therein would cover the similar prayers made in the interlocutory applications filed on behalf of States of Haryana, West Bengal, Kerala and Bihar.

(2.) This is the approach that this Court had adopted while seeking to resolve the issue of insulation of the police machinery from political/executive interference in Prakash Singh (supra).

(3.) After an in-depth consideration of the matter, this Court had issued several directions in exercise of the jurisdiction under Article 142 of the Constitution of India, which had been set out in paragraph 31 of the report in Prakash Singh (supra). For the present case, the Court would be concerned with direction number 31(2), which deals with "selection and minimum tenure of DGP", which direction is extracted below:-