New Delhi, March 22 -- The Central Armed Police Forces (General Administration) Bill, 2026, which is likely to be tabled before the Lok Sabha on Monday, has codified the number of Indian Police Service (IPS) officers on deputation at different levels in the CAPF and proposed an umbrella law with a single framework for all the five CAPFs. The move comes amid objections from CAPF associations which have objected to the longstanding practice of appointing IPS officers brought on deputation to senior roles. The bill, if passed, would effectively override a Supreme Court judgment from May last year that had ordered the government to progressively reduce IPS deputation in the CAPFs - a ruling that the government's own review petition had failed t...