Punjab Police Academy Director and DGP-rank officer R S Gill has been directed by the state’s Home Department to report directly to the state government rather than Punjab DGP P S Gill, who is his younger brother. The order specifies that he will now report directly to the Principal Secretary, Home, about his routine work, sanction of leave and tour programmes instead of P S Gill, to whom he was reporting so far. “The Home Department has issued orders that R S Gill will now directly report to it,” says A R Talwar, Principal Secretary, Home and Justice.

Not only is R S Gill is elder than P S Gill, he is also a batch senior. While the PPA director is a 1973-batch Punjab cadre IPS, P S Gill is a 1974 officer of the J&K cadre. The seniority discrepancy had come in the way of the precedent that requires the PPA Director to report to the DGP.

Sources in the Gill family said that differences cropped up between the brothers after P S Gill took over as head of the Punjab Police.