No decision yet on DG&IGP Alok Mohan's tenure — to retire or get extension

THERE is confusion regarding who will head the nearly 1-lakh-strong police force in Karnataka from next month.

- BALA CHAUHAN @Bengaluru

THERE is confusion regarding who will head the nearly 1-lakh-strong police force in Karnataka from next month. While as per the Civil List of Indian Police Service (IPS) of Karnataka cadre, incumbent Director General & Inspector General of Police (DG&IGP) Alok Mohan is scheduled to retire this month-end, it is not yet clear whether the government will grant him a four-month extension till August this year.

Mohan belongs to the 1987 batch of IPS and is the senior-most IPS officer in Karnataka. He was appointed in-charge DG&IGP in May 2023 after his predecessor, Praveen Sood, was appointed Director, Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). Mohan's appointment was regularised on August 5, 2023.

While the Supreme Court had issued directions on the appointment and a fixed two-year tenure for the Director General of Police (DGP) in the Prakash Singh judgment of 2006, the Karnataka Police Act, amended in 2012, states that the DG&IGP "so appointed shall have a tenure of not less than two years subject to superannuation".