Section 5: Appointment of Commandant, Assistant Commandants and Adjutant.
The Maharashtra State Reserve Police Force Act.State Act of Maharashtra · Act 38 of 1951
5. Appointment of Commandant, [Assistant Commandants and Adjutant.].- (1) The State Government may appoint for each group a Commandant who shall be a person eligible to hold the post of a [a Superintendent] and an Assistant Commandant [and an Adjutant who shall be persons] eligible to hold the post of an Assistant or a Deputy Superintendent.
(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), the State Government may appoint such Military Officer as it deems fit to be a Commandant or Assistant Commandant, [or Adjutant].
(3) The Commandant, the Assistant Commandant, [the Adjutant] and every other officer so appointed shall have and may exercise such powers and authority as may be provided by or under this Act.