Yogi government reshuffles IPS officers

February 02, 2018 12:26

In a major reshuffle, the Uttar Pradesh government today transferred 26 IPS officers, including ADG zone and IG range of the state capital.

While ADG (Lucknow zone) Abhay Kumar Prasad has been sent to the Economic Office Wing (EOW), ADG, BR Ambedkar Police Academy Moradabad, Rajiv Krishan, was made the new ADG zone Lucknow, officials sources said here.

IG range JN Singh was replaced by Sujit Pandey who was till now posted as IG (telecom), they said.

Among those transferred were PV Ramashastri, who was made ADG (Varanasi zone) after being on waitlist; ADG CB-CID Dawa Sherpa, who was sent as ADG Gorakhpur zone; DK Thakur, who was made IG (Bareilly) after being on a waitlist; DIG PAC Praveen Kumar was made DIG (Law and Order), they said.

The IG (Bareilly) SK Bhagat was made IG (Law and order).

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