New Delhi, Feb. 6 -- The Supreme Court has dismissed the plea of a 2004 batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer of the Tamil Nadu cadre seeking allocation to an "insider" vacancy in the Rajasthan cadre for the same selection year, holding that such belated claims cannot be entertained as they would unsettle the finality of cadre allocation.
A Bench comprising Justice Rajesh Bindal and Justice Atul S. Chandurkar observed that the appellant, Rupesh Kumar Meena, had raised his claim only in 2010, six years after the 2004 selection, and that entertaining the plea after more than two decades would render the cadre allocation process fluid indefinitely.
"In our view, such a process cannot be adopted. It will result in the process of allocatio...