KOCHI: A martyr’s daughter joining the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) on compassionate grounds has approached the Kerala High Court challenging the transfer order citing violation of statutory stipulations. Considering the petition, the court has directed the CISF director general to retain her in Kochi for two weeks.
The court issued the order on the petition filed by Assistant Sub Inspector (Ministerial) R S Divyamol seeking to quash the order transferring her to Karnataka.
Her father P Sudarshanan was killed in an ambush by Naga militants and was awarded the Presidential Medal posthumously. Inducted on compassionate grounds, she was first posted at the CISF unit in FACT, Udyogamandal. Later, she was posted at the Cochin Port Trust on December 2013.
The husband of the petitioner is working in FACT. In her petition, Divyamol cited the directive of the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions which says if one of the spouses is in the Central service and the other is in a PSU, they should be posted in the same station.
Divyamol said she was entitled to be retained in Kochi without being displaced and stranded with two children, one of whom is only 10 months old.
The petitioner is the only woman in the list of 98 personnel posted to the CISF unit at the NTPC plant in Kudgi, Karnataka. Several Assistant Sub Inspector (ministerial) vacancies are lying vacant in Ernakulam, including her present unit, says the petition.