IPS officers transfer: Verma superseded, Sharma promoted

Sharma is said to be a confidante of BJP chief Amit Shah and had shared the stage with him at a community event, during the Chhatt puja last year.

The other 1987 officer to become ADGP is Sanjay Shrivastava. The officers who were not promoted are – K K Ojha, P B Gondia and C R Parmar.

The 1986 batch officers who will now be ADGPs are – Vinod Kumar Mall, E Radhakrishnaiah and Satish Sharma.

The 1986 batch had made several representations before the government for promotions which were reportedly put on the back-burner after Satish Verma, took the government head-on in the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) alleging that it tried to harm him because of his breakthrough in the Ishrat Jahan encounter case when challenging his posting to the North East. Verma had investigated the case as part of the Gujarat High Court-appointed SIT and assisted the CBI later.

Verma is posted at North-Eastern Electric Power Corporation Limited (NEEPCO), Shillong on central deputation.

The state government notification stated that E Radhakrishnan, who is Vadodara Police Commissioner, will continue as the Vadodada police chief. Mall, who heads in the SC/ST cell of the state police, will head the cell as ADGP SC/ST cell while Sharma was recently posted to GUVNL after Radhkrishnan took over from him, will now head the GUVNL as ADGP.

Shrivastava, who is now posted as IGP in state Crime Record Bureau, will head the SCRB as additional DGP. Sharma and Shrivastava were empanelled for promotion last year.

IGP Meera Ramnivas of the 1985 batch, who had an inquiry pending against her, has been promoted as additional DGP while she will continue to serve in state CID (Crime) but now as ADGP CID (IV).