10 Years As Head Constable Must For Promotion As Sub-Inspector: Court

When a benefit is conferred in the GOs, the requirements to get such a benefit must be satisfied, the Madras High Court said.

Ten years of service as head constable is mandatory for promotion as Sub-Inspector (SI) or Special SI of the police, the Madras High Court has ruled.

Observing that only actual satisfaction is required for promotion in police constabulary, that too with perspective effect from the dates of the relevant GOs, a full Bench gave this ruling on February 4.

When a benefit is conferred in the GOs, the requirements to get such a benefit must be satisfied. There is no scope for a 'deemed' satisfaction. What is expected is the 'actual' satisfaction of the requirements, the full Bench of Justices Paresh Upadyyay, N Anand Venkatesh and Krishnan Ramaswamy has said.

The Bench was passing orders on a batch of over 600 writ petitions and appeals filed both in the Madras High Court and its Bench at Madurai from 2014 to 2021.