RATODERO (Larkana), March 12: The departmental promotion committee (DPC) of the Sindh Police Department has recently promoted 10 junior inspectors to DSP in violation of police and service rules, sources in the department disclose.

The sources said that the DPC meeting promoted only the officers who belonged to Karachi region and completely ignored Hyderabad and Sukkur regions. The thrice-postponed meeting chaired by AIG Sindh Ghulam Qadir Mahar in Karachi promoted 10 junior inspectors from BPS-16 to DSP (BPS-17).

The sources claimed that the officers were assigned seniority on the recommendation of coalition partner of outgoing Sindh government. But the senior most inspector Gul Muhammad Chachak whose name was on top of seniority list and who was assigned seniority on Oct 2, 2007 but did not have the same recommendation was not promoted.

The sources said that the DPC meeting made only 10 promotions against 23 vacancies. It could have promoted 10 more inspectors on future vacancy basis but did not opt to do it though it had been a practice in past, they said.

The sources said that the affected senior inspectors who were appointed in 1970’s had appealed to the IGP, home secretary, caretaker chief minister and the nominated chief minister of Sindh to take notice of the injustice and order that all the promotions be made purely on merit.—PPI