HC seeks counter-affidavit on transfer of policemen

           The Allahabad High Court today restrained Uttar Pradesh authorities from relieving hundreds of police personnel, who were recently transferred on the ground that they had been posted at or near their home districts, until further others

            Asking the Inspector General of Police (Establishment) to file his counter-affidavit on the petitions by the police personnel, Justice Shishir Kumar fixed April 23 as the next date of hearing in the matter.

            Earlier on March 30, the court had restrained the authorities from relieving the petitioners till April 09.

           The court today directed that the authorities will not relieve the transferred sub-inspectors and constables, who have approached the court, until further orders.

             The petitioners had moved the court with the plea that they had been transferred by their respective IGPs (Range) without taking due approval from the Police Establishment Board, set up in accordance with a Supreme Court order.