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SC strikes down HC order allowing IPS officer R K Sharma to join duty
New Delhi, Feb 05: The Supreme Court today struck down a Punjab and Haryana High Court order allowing a senior IPS officer R K Sharma to join as DIG in Punjab police despite going abroad for a long time without leave being sanctioned and applying for VRS twice and withdrawing the same subsequently.
New Delhi, Feb 05: The Supreme Court today struck
down a Punjab and Haryana High Court order allowing a senior
IPS officer R K Sharma to join as DIG in Punjab police despite
going abroad for a long time without leave being sanctioned
and applying for VRS twice and withdrawing the same
subsequently.
Allowing the petition filed by another senior police
official P Lal challenging the induction of Sharma, a bench
comprising Justice S S M Quadri and Justice S N Variava
accepted the submissions of petitioner's counsel Nidesh Gupta
and ruled that Sharma's first application for VRS be treated
as having been accepted.
Writing the judgement for the bench, Justice Variava said
there was no need for the government to issue a termination
letter to Sharma as his services would be treated as having
been ceased from May 1993.
The bench further directed the police official to surrender to the government any pecuniary benefit given to him after May 1993 over and above the due VRS benefits. The case had a chequered history. Sharma was repatriated to Punjab government in october 1990 after a stint with raw on deputation.
He had joined as DIG Punjab police on September 30, 1991. However, 23 days later he applied for leave and left for England without prior sanction of leave. When he applied for extension of leave on grounds of illness, the government sanctioned leave till January 10, 1992. In February the same year, he was told by the government that he would be granted no more extensions.
Bureau Report
The bench further directed the police official to surrender to the government any pecuniary benefit given to him after May 1993 over and above the due VRS benefits. The case had a chequered history. Sharma was repatriated to Punjab government in october 1990 after a stint with raw on deputation.
He had joined as DIG Punjab police on September 30, 1991. However, 23 days later he applied for leave and left for England without prior sanction of leave. When he applied for extension of leave on grounds of illness, the government sanctioned leave till January 10, 1992. In February the same year, he was told by the government that he would be granted no more extensions.
Bureau Report