Indian Police Service (Cadre) Rules, 1954

The appellant, selected in the combined Civil Services Examination, was initially appointed to the Delhi Andaman and Nicobar Police Service (DANIP). When vacancies later arose in the Indian Police Service (IPS), the three reserved‑category vacancies were filled from DANIP candidates, but the general‑category vacancies …

The case concerned direct recruits to the Indian Police Service (IPS) who appealed against a Central Administrative Tribunal order that allowed promotee officers from the State Police Service to count their continuous officiating service from the date they were included in the IPS select list for determining their year…

The State of Maharashtra alleged that the appellants were members of an organized crime syndicate operating the illegal "Mumbai Matka" gambling network. Police raided a gambling den, recorded confessions of several accused, including the appellants, by an Additional Superintendent of Police (Addl. SP) under Section 18 …

The appellant, a general‑category candidate who secured the 95th rank in the 1998 Civil Services Examination, was allocated to the Manipur‑Tripura Joint IPS cadre, while an OBC candidate (respondent No.4) with the 133rd rank was allocated to the Andhra Pradesh cadre. The appellant claimed that the conversion of a gener…

The case concerned the allocation of two Indian Police Service officers, Vikrama Varma (an OBC insider) and Avinash Mohanty, to state cadres after the 2004 Civil Services Examination. The respondents challenged the allocation of Varma to the Andhra Pradesh cadre, alleging that the allocation violated the roster princip…

The Tamil Nadu government, after receiving a complaint from the Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Commissioner, ordered on 01.08.2018 that all idol‑theft investigations being handled by the Idol Wing of the CID be transferred to the CBI. The Madras High Court quashed that order and, under Article 226, appointed…

Navneet Rajan Wasan, an IPS officer of the Andhra Pradesh cadre, was denied promotion to the senior scale on the ground that he had not passed the language test. He obtained a direction from the Central Administrative Tribunal ordering the Government to consider him for promotion. When the Government implemented the or…

The case concerned V.K. Ahluwalia, a former Deputy Superintendent of Police who had been appointed Superintendent of Police (a cadre post) before being inducted into the Indian Police Service (IPS). He claimed that his year of allotment in the IPS should be fixed as 1961, reflecting his continuous officiation in a cadr…

Markandey Singh, a former Deputy Superintendent of Police in Uttar Pradesh, was absorbed into the Himachal Pradesh‑Delhi joint IPS cadre in 1963 and was allotted the year 1958 as his year of allotment. He later claimed that his officiation as Superintendent of Police while on deputation from 6 December 1961 to 13 May 1…

The Union of India appealed against two orders of the Central Administrative Tribunal that had allowed the challenges of cadre allocations made to two Indian Police Service probationers who had been granted exemption from training. Rahul Rasgotra, selected in 1988, was allotted a joint Manipur‑Tripura cadre in December…