The Ministry of Home Affairs has directed all segments of the AGMUT cadre to report within 48 hours any case, arrest, adverse court order, or action by a probe agency involving IAS, IPS, DANICS, and DANIPS officers.
The direction was issued at a review meeting chaired by the Ministry, after it was observed that local departments had frequently failed to report investigations by the Central Bureau of Investigation, the Enforcement Directorate, and the Anti-Corruption Bureau in time. The AGMUT cadre covers Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Mizoram, and the Union Territories, including Delhi, Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Chandigarh, Puducherry, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, and Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu.
48-hour reporting
Cadre segments must now inform the Ministry within 48 hours of any first information report, arrest, adverse court order, or investigative action against officers of the Indian Administrative Service, the Indian Police Service, the Delhi, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, Daman and Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli Civil Services (DANICS), and the corresponding police service, DANIPS. The requirement is intended to ensure that developments in criminal and departmental matters reach the cadre-controlling authority without delay.
Disciplinary cases by October 15
All AGMUT segments have been asked to submit details and supporting documents in pending disciplinary cases by October 15, clearly stating whether each matter is at the pre-charge-sheet or post-charge-sheet stage.
Proposals must be complete. They are required to contain a clear statement of facts, a chronology of events, authenticated copies of relied-upon documents, a list of witnesses, a draft charge-sheet, a specific recommendation on whether a major or minor penalty is proposed, and the reasons for initiating proceedings. Incomplete proposals returned by the Ministry must be resubmitted within 15 days.
Scrutiny of prolonged leave
The Ministry has separately ordered closer examination of officers on prolonged leave. Administrations must verify leave accounts, the nature and duration of leave, extensions granted, and the officer’s place of stay. Salary is to be paid only for periods covered by available and duly sanctioned leave. Excess payments are to be identified and recovered under the rules.
Ladakh, Puducherry, Mizoram, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and Arunachal Pradesh have been specifically asked to verify leave accounts and initiate recovery where applicable. Unexplained prolonged absence, or failure to resume duty despite repeated directions, may attract disciplinary proceedings and other adverse consequences under the service rules.
Training, induction, and recruitment
On mandatory training, the Ministry has said that requests for exemption should be confined to genuinely exceptional circumstances. Each segment has been asked to put in place an internal tracking mechanism, and officers nearing eligibility for promotion are to be relieved for training on priority.
The Arunachal Pradesh government has been directed to send its proposal for induction of State police service officers into the IPS, for the select list of 2025, to the Union Public Service Commission at the earliest. Jammu and Kashmir has been asked to complete collection of Annual Performance Assessment Reports and to prepare the statements and documents required for pending IAS and IPS induction proposals, without waiting for the Centre to finalise vacancies. Those proposals are to be kept ready for immediate submission to the UPSC once vacancies are determined.
The Ministry has also asked AGMUT segments to ensure continuous and expeditious direct recruitment in the entry grades of the State civil and police services, and to clear existing recruitment backlogs.
