Nagaland Police to re-advertise 935 constable posts after HC nullifies previous appointments

Kohima, Oct 22: Nagaland Director General of Police (DGP), Rupin Sharma, on Monday said that a fresh process would be initiated to recruit 935 police constables, a month after the Gauhati High Court quashed the appointment of 935 police constables who were recruited between January 2018 and October 2019 without proper advertisements.

Sharma said the Kohima Bench of the High Court, while questioning the validity of the appointments, cited the lack of advertisements for the posts of police constables as the main issue for quashing the recruitment process.

He said that the High Court has directed to conduct a new recruitment process after giving fresh advertisements for the posts of police constable. “The police department would soon advertise afresh to recruit police constables,” the DGP said.

Responding to the writ petitions filed by unemployed Naga youths from Kohima and Chumoukedima districts in 2022, High Court Justice Devashis Baruah in his order on September 20 said that the appointments of police constable had been made by the government between January 2018 and October 2019 without proper advertisements for these posts.

The writ petitioners challenged the appointments of 935 police constables, arguing that they were made arbitrarily through “backdoor appointments” without proper advertisement.

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