The Madras High Court on Tuesday directed the Tamil Nadu government, the Director-General of Police and the Commissioner of the Greater Chennai Police to ensure that a 1979 Government Order abolishing the orderly system gets implemented in letter and spirit in the next four months and that no police personnel is made to do household work at the residences of top officers.
Justice S.M. Subramaniam also directed the government and the two heads of the department to withdraw the orderlies forthwith “as it amounts to an illegality”. He ordered that a detailed inquiry be conducted, followed by disciplinary action, on receipt of complaints of misconduct against higher police officers from any person.
The government was also directed to identify all those in illegal occupation of police residential quarters and evict them. The orders were passed while the court was disposing of a 2014 writ petition filed by Deputy Superintendent of Police U. Manickavel who had not vacated the residential quarters in Chennai even after several years since his transfer to Kancheepuram district.
