IAS Officers Always Want Supremacy Over IPS/IFS: SC

The remarks by Justice Gavai came in the course of the hearing of a matter relating to misutilisation of funds

- PARMOD KUMAR

Alluding to the clash of egos between the civil servants belonging to the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), Indian Police Service (IPS), and the India Forest Service (IFS), the Supreme Court on Wednesday said that the IAS officers always attempt to show their supremacy over IPS and IFS officers.

Referring to the clash of egos between the IAS, IPS, and the IFS, Justice B.R. Gavai, heading a bench also comprising Justice Augustine George Masih, remarked: "IAS always wants to show their supremacy over IPS or IFS. This is from my experience as a government pleader and judge as well. This conflict is there in all states and there is heartburn among IPS and IFS that 'though they are from the same cadre, why should they be listening to IAS'?"

The remarks by Justice Gavai came in the course of the hearing of an environmental matter relating to mis-utilization of Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management and Planning Authority (CAMPA) funds for buying things inadmissible under the scope of the fund.