Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government has transferred 12 Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and 8 Indian Police Service (IPS) officers. Several senior police officers, including SPs and SSPs, as well as district magistrates, were moved around in Uttar Pradesh during the latest shakeup.
Reports state that Chitrakoot District Magistrate Abhishek Anand has been transferred to Sitapur, while Sitapur District Magistrate Anuj Singh has been reassigned to Moradabad, per the transfer list made public by the state government.
Durga Shakti Nagpal, the Magistrate of Banda District, has been relocated to Lakhimpur Kheri. The district magistrate of Banda has been appointed as Nagendra Pratap, who is presently the Special Secretary of the Ayush Department. The district magistrate of Chitrakoot has been appointed as Shivsharanappa GN, the Kanpur Municipal Commissioner.
Ajay Kumar Dwivedi, the Special Secretary for the Agriculture Production Commissioner, has been appointed as the district magistrate of Shravasti. Madhusudan Hooghly, the Additional State Project Director, has been appointed as the district magistrate of Kaushambi.
Furthermore, Manish Bansal, the Magistrate of Sambhal District, has been transferred to Saharanpur in the same capacity. Rajendra Pensia, the Special Secretary of Urban Development, has been appointed as the district magistrate of Sambhal.
Ashish Kumar, the vice chairman of the Saharanpur Development Authority, has been named the Hathras district magistrate. Medha Rupam, Greater Noida’s Additional Chief CEO, has been appointed district magistrate of Kasganj.
8 IPS officers have been transferred to the districts of Saharanpur, Moradabad, Bareilly, and Meerut, where they will serve as Senior Superintendents of Police (SSPs). In addition, the Superintendents of Police (SPs) for Azamgarh, Pratapgarh, Chandauli, and Agra Railway have been reassigned.
According to the list of transfers, several senior police officers have been reassigned:
- Vipin Tada, the SSP of Saharanpur, has been designated as the SSP of Meerut.
- Rohit Singh Sajwan, the SSP of Meerut, has been appointed as the SSP of Saharanpur.
- Hemraj Meena, the SSP of Moradabad, has been dispatched to assume the role of the SP of Azamgarh.
- Ghule Sushil Chandrabhan, the SSP of Bareilly, has been assigned the role of SSP STF Lucknow.
- Anurag Arya, the SP of Azamgarh, has been designated as the SSP of Bareilly.
- Satpal, the SP of Pratapgarh, has been appointed as the SSP of Moradabad.
- Anil Kumar, the SP of Chandauli, has been transferred to Pratapgarh.
- Aditya Langhe, the SP of Railway Agra, has been transferred and allocated the position of SP of Chandauli.