Home department sources said the state government received a fax late Wednesday evening from the Union home ministry stating, "SP Deshpande stands relieved and he should immediately report to Mizoram police." This could lead to a clash as the state is reluctant to let Deshpande go. "Even if the Union home ministry has unilaterally relieved Deshpande, the state government will not relieve him," home department sources said.
Chief minister Manohar Parrikar is in Delhi to attend a meeting and could take up the issue there. "Chief minister is likely to meet the Union home minister or officials of the home ministry to discuss the transfers of IPS officers," sources said.
Deshpande, a Goa police service officer, had been promoted to the IPS last November and been allocated to the Goa segment of the joint AGMU cadre. He was then issued transfer orders and posted to Mizoram. On his request that he be retained in Goa for another year due to personal problems, the state had, in turn, appealed to the Union home ministry to extend Deshpande's services in the state for a year but this had been rejected.
Goa has been sanctioned 10 IPS officers. This includes one director general of police (DGP), one inspector general of police (IGP), two deputy inspectors of police (DIGs) and six superintendents of police (SPs). After DIG Ravindra Yadav was transferred recently, both DIG posts have remained vacant. From P 1
Last month, Parrikar had taken on the Union home ministry stating that IPS officers will not be given any posting in the state after the Centre relieved Yadav without consulting the state government.
Parrikar had also instructed chief secretary Sanjay Srivastava not to give charge to any IPS officer the Centre posted to Goa and advised him to prepare grounds to form a separate IPS cadre for Goa. In the recent reshuffling of SPs, IPS officer SP OP Mishra was allotted a posting.
Parrikar had also refused to allot a government bungalow to an IPS officer who has been transferred to Goa without state government consent.