UMESH BARMAN SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE Vs. STATE OF ASSAM REPRESENTED BY THE CHIEF SECRETARY TO THE GOVT OF ASSAM

JUDGEMENT

(1.) BY this writ petition, the petitioner who is serving as Superintendent of Police (Communication), Assam Police Radio Organisation, Message Control Centre, Dispur, is seeking for a direction to the respondents, inter-alia, to initiate steps for declaring the Assam Police Tele-communication Service (APTS) to which the petitioner belongs, as equivalent in status and responsibility to that of the Assam Police Service(APS) for the purpose of consideration for promotion to Indian Police Service.

(2.) THE petitioner entered service as Deputy Superintendent of Police (Communication) in the Assam Police Radio Organisation in the Assam Police Tele-Communication Service Cadre as a direct recruit through the Assam Public Service Commission w.e.f. 2.5.1986. Subsequently, the petitioner was promoted to the senior scale of APTS cadre w.e.f. 26.8.1991 and was confirmed vide order dated 21.3.1994. Subsequently, the petitioner was posted as Superintendent of Police( Communication) vide Order No. HMA 456/83/76 dated 18.12.1998 and till date, the petitioner is continuing in the said post. THE petitioner also states that he was awarded PH.D. degree for his thesis on "Radio Frequency Resonance of Plasma" in the year 2001 by the Gauhati University. THE petitioner also states that prior to joining the APRO he had served as a teacher in a higher secondary school as well as an Engineering Assistant in All India Radio and also in the Television Rely Centre, Tezpur and thereafter, as Inspector (OG), Customs and Central Excise, Tezpur.

(3.) IN view of the above position, the petitioner submitted a representation to the respondent No.2 on 17.3.2010 to take necessary steps for declaring APTS as equivalent in rank and status to that of members belonging to the principal service so as to enable him and other similarly situated persons in APTS to tender their names for nomination for IPS as per the IPS Regulations. Having received no response to the aforesaid representation, the petitioner again submitted another representation on 17.5.2010. However, the same had not been attended to.