Hyderabad: The Telangana government issued an order on Tuesday, April 28, appointing CV Anand, currently serving as the Special Chief Secretary to the Government, Home Department, as the new Director General of Police.
He will serve as the head of Telangana police and will receive an apex scale pay of Rs 2,25,000. His appointment will come into effect on the day he assumes charge.
Anand, a 1991-batch IPS officer, earlier served as Director General of the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) and twice held the post of Hyderabad city Police Commissioner. He had also served as Police Commissioner of Cyberabad.
Currently, B Shivadhar Reddy serves as the Telangana DGP and is set to retire on April 30.
In December last year, petitions had been filed in the Telangana High Court challenging Shivadhar Reddy’s appointment as the DGP. Petitioners alleged that the state government had violated the 2018 Supreme Court guidelines, which mandate states to submit a list of senior police officers to the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) at least three months before the retirement of the incumbent DGP.
Petitioners said that the Telangana government had failed to submit the required list of eligible officers and sought a qou-warranto writ from the High Court, quashing Reddy’s appointment.
However, the High Court had refused to interfere in the matter and directed the state government to submit a panel of eligible officers to the UPSC.
In March, UPSC shortlisted three IPS officers, including CV Anand, Special Director of the Intelligence Bureau Vinayak Prabhakar Apte and Director General of Prisons Soumya Mishra, for the DGP’s position.
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