Uttar Pradesh govt transfers 80 IPS officers

The SPs of 10 districts were also transferred. They include Rajiv Malhotra of Fatehpur district, which witnessed communal violence earlier this month. Malhotra, who has been attached with DGP headquarters, has been replaced by Kalanidhi Naithani, who was the Kannauj SP.
A government spokesperson said the SPs were transferred in lieu of promotions, compulsory training or on administrative basis, after taking the consent of the State Election Commission. The Commission has recently issued notification for elections to the post of block development committee heads.

While Abhay Kumar Prasad has been appointed as ADG (Crime), Braj Bhushan — who was earlier ADG (Police Headquarters, Allahabad) — has been made ADG (CB-CID). B P Jogdand has been posted as new ADG (Allahabad).

Prashant Kumar has been appointed ADG (Security) and Javed Akhtar ADG (Economic Offences Wing). Vijay Kumar Maurya has been appointed ADG (Police Recruitment Board) in place of Avinash Chandra, who has been made ADG (Buildings and Welfare) at police headquarters in Allahabad.

IG (STF) Sujeet Pandey has replaced Alok Sharma as Meerut IG. Sharma has been shifted to Police Training School in Meerut as ADG after his promotion. IG (ATS) Ram Kumar, who has been made IG (STF), has been replaced by IG (Traffic) Asim Kumar Arun.

Kanpur IG Ashutosh Pandey has been appointed IG (Railway, Allahabad). He has been replaced by Zaki Ahmed, who was Lucknow IG. IG (Law and Order) A Satish Ganesh has been made the new Lucknow IG. Bhagwan Swaroop Srivastava has replaced him. RK Chaturvedi, who was Gorakhpur DIG, has been made IG (Allahabad Zone) after his promotion. IG Sanjay Singhal has been made the new assistant to the DGP.

Hari Ram Sharma has been made IG (Gorakhpur) replacing Prem Chand Meena, who in turn has been made IG (Personnel) at DGP headquarters. Varanasi DIG S K Bhagat has been promoted as IG.

Agra DIG Laxmi Singh has been shifted as Meerut DIG, replacing Ashutosh Kumar, who has been made Bareilly DIG. Sharad Sachan was appointed the new DIG of Jhansi, in place of Ajay Mohan Sharma, who has been shifted to Agra in the same capacity. Sanjiv Gupta has been made the Varanasi DIG and J K Shahi will be the new DIG of Allahabad. While Umesh Chandra Srivastava has been made Azamgarh DIG, Shiv Sagar Singh is the new DIG of Gorakhpur and Ratan Kumar Srivastava of Mirzapur.