Hyderabad, April 9 -- The Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) has issued orders to the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT), re-allocating D Ronald Rose to Telangana cadre.

After the bifurcation of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh in 2014, the DoPT had allocated officers from All India Services (AIS) to AP and Telangana. Seven AIS officers had approached the CAT, claiming that the DoPT had not considered their domicile status while allocating them.

In October 2024, the DoPT had turned down the requests of the seven AIS officers and had asked them to report to the state cadre they were allocated to. The AIS officers approached the High Court, which had directed the DoPT to consider the requests of the AIS officers. However, the DoPT...