41 IPS officers reshuffled in Maharashtra
May 23rd, 2011 - 8:51 pm ICT by IANSMumbai, May 23 (IANS) Maharashtra’s Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) Satya Pal Singh was shifted from being in charge of establishment to law and order in a reshuffle of 41 top Indian Police Service (IPS) officers the state government effected here Monday, an official said.
Only 10 days ago, Singh was appointed the head of a Special Investigation Team (SIT) in Gujarat to probe the 2004 Ishrat Jahan staged shootout killing on the direction of the Gujarat High Court.
Ishrat Jahan, 19, was gunned down by a Gujarat Police team along with three others in Ahmedabad June 15, 2004, claiming that they were terrorists.
A 1980 batch IPS officer, Singh earlier served as Mumbai’s joint police commissioner, crime. He was the police commissioner of Nagpur and also Pune when the city was rocked by a terror attack on German Bakery in Koregaon Park area Feb 13, 2010.
Besides Singh, the government has shifted 40 other IPS officers.
S.P. Gupta, special inspector general of police (SIGP), security, will be the new ADGP, special operations, and will oversee the work of the Anti-Terrorist Squad and the task force for anti-Maoist operations.
Pune Joint Police Commissioner Ashok Dhivare has been promoted as ADGP and given the charge of the state Criminal Investigation Department, a key unit entrusted with providing intelligence inputs.
Pune-based SIGP, Motor Transport, P.D. Pawar will be the new ADGP in charge of prisons.
Joint Police Commissioner, State Intelligence Department, R.N. Wagh and SIGP (Nagpur range) have been promoted as ADGPs and posted in the state Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB).
ADGP, ACB, V.R. Kamble has been made the new ADGP, traffic, for the state.
Aurangabad Police Commissioner S.B. Savarkar will be the new ADGP, railways.
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