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Brother cops and ego hassles: Elder not to report to younger
WSN Network

Chandigarh: Punjab government made the younger brother the state's top police officer, and then found that his eleder brother senior to him will find it difficult to report to him. Now, it has found a new technical solution.

Punjab Police Academy Director and DGP-rank officer R S Gill was last week directed by the state’s Home Department to report directly to the state government rather than Punjab DGP P S Gill, who is his younger brother. The order specifies that he will now report directly to the Principal Secretary, Home, about his routine work, sanction of leave and tour programmes instead of P S Gill, to whom he was reporting so far. “The Home Department has issued orders that R S Gill will now directly report to it,” says A R Talwar, Principal Secretary, Home and Justice.

Not only is R S Gill is elder than P S Gill, he is also a batch senior. While the PPA director is a 1973-batch Punjab cadre IPS, P S Gill is a 1974 officer of the J&K cadre. The seniority discrepancy had come in the way of the precedent that requires the PPA Director to report to the DGP.

IT is widely speculated that differences have cropped up between the brothers after P S Gill took over as head of the Punjab Police. RS Gill was earlier given the DGP charge for a month after the then DGP KK Attri retired on June 30 as PS Gill's transfer orders had not reached the government. Interestingly, RS Gill was also made the sttae DGP in 2007 for three months at the time of the Assembly elections after the Akali Dal complained about partisanship of S S Virk to the Election Commission.

12 August 2009
 

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