{"id":40770,"date":"2016-01-06T07:10:51","date_gmt":"2016-01-06T01:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=40770"},"modified":"2016-01-06T07:10:51","modified_gmt":"2016-01-06T01:40:51","slug":"plea-against-up-dgp-sent-to-hc-bench","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/plea-against-up-dgp-sent-to-hc-bench","title":{"rendered":"Plea against UP DGP sent to HC bench"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_37813\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37813\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/allahabad.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-37813\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"37813\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/hc-seeks-reply-on-pil-for-cancellation-of-up-cpmt\/allahabad-3\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/allahabad.jpg?fit=351%2C143&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"351,143\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"allahabad\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/allahabad.jpg?fit=300%2C122&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/allahabad.jpg?fit=351%2C143&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-37813 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/allahabad.jpg?resize=300%2C122&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Plea against UP DGP sent to HC bench\" width=\"300\" height=\"122\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/allahabad.jpg?resize=300%2C122&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/allahabad.jpg?w=351&amp;ssl=1 351w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37813\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Plea against UP DGP sent to HC bench<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Allahabad High Court today directed that a writ petition questioning the appointment of Uttar Pradesh director general of police Javeed Ahmad by the state government be put up before a bench related to service matter cases tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>A Lucknow bench of justices Amreshwar Pratap Sahi and Attau Rahman Masoodi gave the order on the petition by activist Nutan Thakur.<\/p>\n<p>The petitioner has alleged that Ahmad was appointed superseding 13 IPS officers from the UP cadre when eight of them were available to the state government for consideration, petitioner&#8217;s counsel Ashok Pandey said.<\/p>\n<p>He claimed that the step was not in line with the Supreme Court ruling.<\/p>\n<p>For the state government, Advocate General Vijay Bahadur Singh along with Additional Advocate General Bulbul Godiyal and Chief Standing Counsel Mansoor Ahmad appeared.<\/p>\n<p>The petitioner sought a direction for removal of Javeed Ahmad from this post.<\/p>\n<p>( Source &#8211; PTI )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allahabad High Court today directed that a writ petition questioning the appointment of Uttar Pradesh director general of police Javeed Ahmad by the state government be put up before a bench related to service matter cases tomorrow. 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