The name of Additional Director General (ADG) of police Kuldip Sharma, who returned from his foreign posting a month ago, is learnt to have been recommended for a deputation to the Centre.

Sources in the Home Ministry said Sharma was also relieved from the state after recommending his case on Tuesday.

There are four posts of ADG lying vacant in the Border Security Force (BSF) and Sharma had written to Director General of Police S S Khandwawala and the state home ministry to recommend his case soon after he returned from foreign deputation.

The state government is to submit the list of ADGs before Justice K S Zaveri’s court tomorrow.

Incidentally, the Gujarat High Court had recently asked the state government for a list of its ADGs to set up a team of high ranking officials of the level of ADGs on the pattern of the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team to probe the alleged encounter of Mumbai-based girl Ishrat Jahan in June 2004. Sharma is one of the 13 ADGs presently in the state.

Sources said Sharma is not in the good books of the existing political dispensation.

When contacted, Sharma refused to comment, saying that he is in Delhi and unaware of the development.

Home Ministry officials remain tight-lipped on the issue.

Minister of State for Home Amit Shah could not be contacted despite several efforts.