2024-02-28 23:09:41
Mumbai: Rashmi Shukla will now be the DGP of Maharashtra till January 3, 2026. Earlier she was scheduled to retire after four months on June 30. An order in this regard has been issued by the Maharashtra Home Department on Tuesday. In this, an order of the Supreme Court has been cited, in which the tenure of the person appointed to the post of DGP along with many other important posts has been fixed at a minimum of two years. Although the Supreme Court had issued this order many years ago. Many other states have fixed tenure of DGP for two years, but Maharashtra government has implemented the old order of the Supreme Court for the first time. According to an IPS officer, the old order of the Supreme Court and the Maharashtra government’s decision on Tuesday. There is a rift between the orders of. The Supreme Court order says that whoever is given a fixed tenure of two years, he should have at least six months of tenure left before retiring from that post, depending on his age. The order to make Rashmi Shukla DGP was issued by the Maharashtra government on January 4, 2024 (she took charge on January 9), her first retirement was due on June 30, hence her tenure as DGP was for six months from January 4 to June 30, 2024. The tenure is not being completed. There is a difference of 4 days in this.
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According to this officer, it is possible that someone may challenge this matter in the Supreme Court on the basis of this technical reason. According to another official, the state government must have taken legal advice before issuing this order.
Became IPS at the age of 24
Rashmi Shukla is the first woman from Maharashtra to be made DGP. The previous Mahavikas Aghadi government had accused him of tapping the phones of many opposition leaders and FIRs were also registered against him in Pune and Mumbai. But after the change of power in the state, all these old cases were re-investigated and they got clean chit from the court. Rashmi Shukla is of year 1988 batch. She became an IPS at the age of 24. Rashmi Shukla has a long association with Prayagraj, UP. He did post graduation from there.