'Troops Made To Care For Officers' Dogs': BSF DIG In Plea To Delhi HC

Last Updated:September 05, 2025, 20:37 IST

The petition pointed out that this “gross misuse of manpower” comes at a time when over 83,000 posts are vacant across the CAPFs and Assam Rifles

A bench comprising Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhayaya and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela issued a notice to the Ministry of Home Affairs.

A senior officer of the Border Security Force (BSF) has moved the Delhi High Court, alleging widespread misuse of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) personnel, who are being made to perform domestic chores, including looking after officers’ pets, at the private residences of senior officials.

BSF Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Sanjay Yadav, in his public interest litigation (PIL), claimed that it is now a regular practice to divert BSF soldiers from critical border and law-and-order duties to serve as domestic help for high-ranking officers.

“It is virtually a practice in vogue wherein various soldiers of BSF are diverted from performing official duties on the border or on law-and-order duties and are detailed for performing domestic functions in the private houses of high-ranking officers," Yadav stated in his plea.

“Our country’s soldiers are even deployed specifically to take care of a high-ranking officer’s dog," he noted.

The petition pointed out that this “gross misuse of manpower" comes at a time when over 83,000 posts are vacant across the CAPFs and Assam Rifles.

Yadav argued that this practice not only weakens national security and law enforcement but also places an “undue strain on the public exchequer".

On Wednesday, taking note of the plea, a bench comprising Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhayaya and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela issued a notice to the Ministry of Home Affairs, seeking its response.

Yadav’s petition also referred to a government office memorandum (OM) issued on 21 September 2016. The order had directed that all personal privileges extended to retired officers—such as deployment of personnel, vehicles, and security—be withdrawn within a month of retirement. Following the OM, a list of 131 BSF personnel was prepared, revealing that they were still serving retired officers in various unauthorised roles, The Indian Express reported.

However, according to Yadav, no action was taken by the BSF authorities to withdraw these personnel or recover the cost of their deployment from the retired officers.

(With inputs from PTI)

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