Uttar Pradesh: Major reshuffle sees 33 IPS officers transferred

Lucknow: In a major reshuffle, Uttar Pradesh government today transferred 33 IPS and 11 PPS officers. DIG Agra Vijay Singh Meena has been replaced by DIG PAC Meerut Laxmi Singh, a home department spokesman said here. DIG Devipatan (Gonda) Vijay Kumar Garg has been transferred on the post of DIG Personnel Lucknow and he has been replaced by DIG Police Training College (Gorakhpur) Jitendra Pratap Singh, the spokesman said. [caption id=“attachment_1608361” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  Uttar Pradesh CM Akhilesh Yadav (Courtesy: Agencies)[/caption] Gorakhpur SSP Akash Kulhari and commandant PAC 20 battalion Azamgarh Ram Krishna Bharadwaj swap postings while Piyush Srivastava attached to the DGP headquarters here has been made the new SP of Banda district. Ravidas Nagar SP Subhash Chanda Dubey has been transferred to Intelligence Lucknow in the same capacity and SP Intelligence (Gorakhpur) Vikramaditya Sachan comes to Ravidas Nagar in his place, the spokesman said. Commandant 49 battalion PAC Noida Manjil Saini has been made the new SSP of Mathura in place of Nitin Tewari who has been attached to the DGP headquarter in Lucknow. SP Bijnore Umesh Kumar Srivasatav has been shifted to Ambedkarnagar on the same post and Satyenda Kumar Singh, attached to the DGP headquarter in Lucknow, goes to Bijnore as SP, he said. SP Ambedkarnagar Kiran S has been made the new SP of Lalitpur from where SP Vijay Yadav was removed three days ago by the chief minister after a police chowki incharge reportedly forced a farmer to drink urine. Besides the government has also transferred 11 Provincial Police Service (PPS) officers**.** PTI