Cop recruitment: Candidates can now apply for over 1 category

Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Monday issued an order to annul the condition of rendering candidates ineligible if they have applied for more than one category during their police recruitment process.

Also, in a major relief to 15 police constables who were declared ineligible for having applied for more than one category during their recruitment, Mr Fadnavis has rescinded the decision and issued directions to take them back in service.

As per the recruitment rules and conditions, candidates are not eligible if they apply for more than one category. Hence, the Nagpur police administration had in September, 2014 issued orders to terminate the services of these 15 constables.

The constables, meanwhile, had petitioned the chief minister arguing that although they had applied for more than one category, they had accepted job in one place only hence they be reabsorbed in the service.

“The chief minister has cancelled the condition of rendering candidates ineligible if they have applied for more than one category during their police recruitment process,” an official from the chief minister’s office said.