Deputy Superintendent of Police in Central Bureau of Investigation – LDCE Rules 2024

Deputy Superintendent of Police in Central Bureau of Investigation – LDCE Rules 2024 to be held by the Union Public Service Commission in 2024

MINISTRY OF PERSONNEL, PUBLIC GRIEVANCES AND PENSIONS
(Department of Personnel and Training)

NOTIFICATION
New Delhi the 20th December, 2023

RULES

No. 202/90/2023-AVD-II.—The Rules for a Limited Departmental Competitive Examination to be held by the Union Public Service Commission in 2024 for the purpose of filling vacancies of Deputy Superintendent of Police in Central Bureau of Investigation are published for general information:

1. The number of vacancies to be filled on the results of the examination will be specified in the Notice issued by the Commission. Reservation will be made for candidates belonging to the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes in respect of vacancies as may be fixed by the Government.

2. The examination will be conducted by the Union Public Service Commission in the manner prescribed in Appendix I to these rules.

The dates on which and the places at which the examination will be held, shall be fixed by the Commission.

3. The candidates should have completed 04 years of regular service (including the period of training) on the crucial date i.e. 1st January, 2023 in the rank of Sub-Inspector ( Pay Level 7 of Pay Matrix) or Inspector ( Pay Level 8 of Pay Matrix) and should have clean service record throughout:

4. A candidate must not have attained the age of 40 years on crucial date for eligibility i.e. 01.01.2023 i.e. he/she must have been born not earlier than 02nd January 1983. However, the upper age limit prescribed above shall be relaxable up to a maximum of five years if a candidate belongs to a Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe category.

SAVE AS PROVIDED ABOVE THE AGE LIMITS PRESCRIBED CAN IN NO CASE BE RELAXED.

5. The Educational Qualification for appearing in the Limited Departmental Competitive Examination will be a Graduation from a recognized University.

6. Candidates must meet the prescribed Physical standards for admission to the Limited Departmental Competitive Examination, 2023 for selection of Deputy Superintendent of Police in CBI, specified in Appendix-II of these Rules.

7. After the Notification of the Rules of the Examination in the Gazette of India by Department of Personnel & Training, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions and publication of Notice of Examination by the Commission, the candidates will have to fill in the application form on-line on the UPSC’s web-site and a hard copy of the same is to be routed through proper channel to the CBI authorities for verification and onwards transmission to the Commission. The scrutiny of applications for deciding the eligibility of candidates with reference to the stipulated eligibility conditions will be done by the Central Bureau of Investigation. However, the decision of the Commission as to the acceptance of the application of a candidate and his/her eligibility or otherwise for admission to the examination shall be final.

8. The candidates applying for the examination should ensure that they fulfil all the eligibility conditions for admission to the examination. Their admission at all the stages of examination for which they are admitted by the Commission viz. Written Examination, Physical Standard Tests and Personality Test/Interview will be purely provisional subject to their satisfying the prescribed eligibility conditions. If on verification at any time before or after the Written Examination, Physical Standard Tests or Personality Test/Interview, it is found that they do not fulfil any of eligibility conditions; their candidature for the examination will be cancelled.

9. Admit Card of the admitted candidates to this examination will be uploaded on the UPSC website and can be downloaded by the eligible candidates. No paper e-Admit Card will be issued by the Commission. Candidates shall not be admitted to the examination unless he/she holds a downloaded e-Admit Card.

10(1) A Candidate who is or has been declared by the Commission to be guilty of :—

(a) Obtaining support for candidature by the following means, namely:-

(i) offering illegal gratification to; or

(ii) applying pressure on; or

(iii) blackmailing or threatening to blackmail any person connected with the conduct of the examination; or

(b) impersonation; or

(c) procuring impersonation by any person; or

(d) submitting fabricated / incorrect documents or documents which have been tampered with; or

(e) uploading irrelevant or incorrect photo/ signature in the application form in place of actual photo/signature; or

(f) making statements which are incorrect or false or suppressing material information; or

(g) resorting to the following means in connection with the candidature for the examination, namely :-

(i) obtaining copy of question paper through improper means; or

(ii) finding out the particulars of the persons connected with secret work relating to the examination; or

(iii) influencing the examiners; or

(h) being in possession of or using unfair means during the examination; or

(i) writing obscene matter or drawing obscene sketches or irrelevant matter in the scripts; or

(j) misbehaving in the examination hall including tearing of the scripts, provoking fellow examinees to boycott examination, creating a disorderly scene and the like; or

(k) harassing, threatening or doing bodily harm to the staff employed by the Commission for the conduct of the examination; or

(l) being in possession of or using any mobile phone, (even in switched-off mode), pager or any electronic equipment or programmable device or storage media like pen drive, smart watches etc. or camera or bluetooth devices or any other equipment or related accessories (either in working or switched-off mode) capable of being used as a communication device during the examination; or

(m) violating any of the instructions issued to candidates along with their admission certificates permitting them to take the examination; or

(n) attempting to commit or, as the case may be, abetting the commission of all or any of the acts specified in the foregoing clauses;

In addition to being liable to criminal prosecution, shall be disqualified by the Commission from the Examination held under these Rules; and/or shall be liable to be debarred either permanently or for a specified period :-

(i) by the Commission, from any examination or selection held by them;

(ii) by the Central Government from any employment under them;

and shall be liable to face disciplinary action under the appropriate rules if already in service under Government;

Provided that no penalty under this rule shall be imposed except after :-

(i) giving the candidate an opportunity of making such representation in writing as the candidate may wish to make in that behalf; and

(ii) taking the representation, if any, submitted by the candidate within the period allowed for this purpose, into consideration.

10(2) Any person who is found by the Commission to be guilty of colluding with a candidate(s) in committing or abetting the commission of any of the misdeeds listed at the clauses (a) to (m) above will be liable to action in terms of the clause (n) above.

11(1) Candidates who obtain such minimum qualifying marks in the written Examination as may be fixed by the Commission in their discretion shall be summoned for the Physical Standard Tests by CBI to check whether they meet the Physical Standards specified in Appendix II to these Rules:

11(2) Commission retains discretion to fix minimum qualifying standards in any or all of the papers at any stage and retains discretion to evaluate conventional papers of only those candidates who secure minimum qualifying standards in the objective paper (Paper-I), as may be determined by the Commission in its discretion.

11(3) Provided that candidates belonging to the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes may be summoned for the Physical Standard Tests by applying relaxed standards if the Commission is of the opinion that sufficient number of candidates from these categories are not likely to be summoned for the Physical Standards Tests on the basis of the general standard in Written Examination in order to fill up the vacancies reserved for them.

11(4) The Physical Standard Tests will be conducted under the supervision of CBI.

11(5) Candidates, who are declared qualified in the Physical Standard Tests, will be called for the Interview/Personality Test to be conducted by the Union Public Service Commission. The Interview/Personality Test will carry 200 marks.

11(6) The Interview/Personality Test would be conducted by a Board of competent and unbiased persons who will have before them a record of the candidates. The candidate will be asked questions both in his/her own field as well as matters of general interest to test his/her awareness and understanding. In broad terms, this will be an assessment of not only his/her mental calibre but also his/her social traits and integrity of character. The Board would broadly assess the candidate inter-alia in the following :

(i) Physical Make-up

(a) Appearance
(b) Bearing
(c) Manners and Mannerism

(ii) General Intelligence, Aptitude and Interest

(a) Ability to perceive, analyse and present facts and situation.
(b) Work related aptitudes, like discipline, empathy etc.
(c) Extra-curricular activities-participation in games, sports, debates etc.

(iii) Disposition

(a) Leadership, drive, determination, quick decision making etc.
(b) Self-reliance.
(c) Ability to face stress and crisis.
(d) Courage-moral and physical.

(iv) Behavioural aspect of personality

(a) Inter-personal relations with superiors and subordinates.
(b) Commitment to values, integrity, secular and national orientation.

11(7) The candidature of such candidates who do not qualify at the Physical Standards Tests is liable for cancellation.

12(1) After the Interview, candidates will be arranged by the Commission in order of merit as disclosed by the aggregate marks finally awarded to each candidate subject to qualifying each paper/part of the examination as decided by the Commission.

Category-wise merit list will be based on the number of vacancies and candidate’s merit and fulfilment of all other eligibility conditions. The Commission reserves the right to fix minimum qualifying standards for any or all stage(s) or paper(s) of the Examination.

12(2) The final selection of the candidates including candidates belonging to the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes will be decided based on the guidelines issued by the Department of Personnel & Training vide OM 36012/16/2019-Estt.(Res.) dated 12.04.2022 subject to the final outcome of the Civil Appeal No. 629 of 2022 arising out of SLP(C) No. 36021/2011.

Further provided that the candidates who qualify in the order of merit but the results of whose Physical standards test are pending will be recommended provisionally.

13. The form and manner of communication of the result of the examination to individual candidates shall be decided by the Commission in their discretion and the Commission will not enter into correspondence with them regarding the result.

14. A candidate must be in good mental and bodily health and free from any physical defect likely to interfere with the discharge of his/her duties as an officer of the service. A candidate, who after such physical examination as Government or the appointing authority, as the case may be, may prescribe, is found not to satisfy these requirements will not be appointed.

15. The list of finally selected candidates would be forwarded by the Commission to Department of Personnel & Training, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions for issue of offer of appointment to the post of Deputy Superintendent of Police in CBI.

16. No TA/DA/Journey expenses will be allowed to the candidates for attending the Exam at any stage.

KUNDAN NATH, Under Secy.