A day after governor and Chandigarh administrator Banwarilal Purohit wrote again to chief minister Bhagwant Mann that the Punjab authorities was knowledgeable nicely prematurely concerning the repatriation of Union Territory senior superintendent of police Kuldeep Singh Chahal to his father or mother cadre following allegations of “misconduct”, the The state authorities forwarded a panel of names of three IPS officers for appointment as Chandigarh SSP.

The three IPS officers shortlisted by the Punjab authorities for the coveted publish are Akhil Chaudhary, Sandeep Kumar Garg and Bhagirath Singh Meena. Chaudhary and Garg are 2012-batch officers, whereas Meena is an officer of the 2013 batch.

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Chaudhary is posted as assistant inspector normal (AIG), personnel, legislation and order and public grievances, whereas Garg is the Mohali SSP and Meena is the Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar district police chief.

Their names have been forwarded to the UT administration, which sends them to the Union house ministry for approval.

The administration had on Monday repatriated Chahal to Punjab, his father or mother cadre, whilst he had 10 months left of his three-year tenure. His cost was given to SSP (visitors) Manisha Chaudhary, a Haryana-cadre IPS officer.

The choice was labeled as being “anti-Punjab” by political leaders of the state. Mann shot off a letter on Tuesday and objected to the UT administration’s choice handy over the cost to Chaudhary. In his two-page reply, Purohit accused Mann of capturing off a letter on Chahal’s repatriation and elevating the “unnecessary issue of Punjab vs Haryana” with out ascertaining details.

Attributing the police officer’s untimely repatriation to critical inputs concerning his “misconduct”, the governor wrote that the Punjab authorities was knowledgeable concerning the choice to repatriate Chahal together with the request to ship a panel of IPS officers for appointing his successor. “Since during this period you were busy campaigning in the Gujarat assembly elections, it was not possible for me to contact you,” he wrote.