Overview
- The Centre filed a formal application challenging Jharkhand’s 2025 DGP selection rules and the appointment of Tadasha Mishra, and the Supreme Court agreed on Wednesday to list the plea for hearing.
- The application says Jharkhand amended its January 2025 regulation on December 29 to remove a six‑month residual service requirement and then appointed Mishra on December 30, 2025, one day before her scheduled retirement.
- The Centre argues that appointing Mishra 24 hours before superannuation effectively granted her a two‑year tenure while avoiding the Prakash Singh rule that candidates normally have at least six months of service left.
- The filing also cites an earlier contested appointment of Anurag Kumar Gupta on February 2, 2025, when he had roughly three months left in service and prompted written objections from the Union Home Ministry.
- If the court accepts the Centre’s case it could annul appointments made under the 2025 rules, order Jharkhand to follow UPSC empanelment and tenure norms from Prakash Singh, and trigger closer federal and judicial oversight of state DGP selections.