After shifting a dozen Indian Police Service officers late on Tuesday night, the state government affected another rejig by transferring nine more IPS officers and 10 IAS officers, including Lakhimpur Kheri’s District Magistrate Arvind Kumar Chaurasiya, who was replaced by erstwhile DM of Mainpuri, Mahendra Bahadur Singh.

The transfer came against the backdrop of violence and the deaths of eight people after a farmers’ protest in Lakhimpur Kheri on October 3. Union Minister of State for Home Ajay Mishra Teni’s son Ashish Mishra, who is the prime accused in the case, was arrested but farmers’ groups are since then staging demonstrations for the removal of Teni from the Union cabinet.

The district administration has been blamed for mishandling the case and delaying action following the deaths.

As per an official communiqué, Mahendra Bahadur Singh was made the new DM of Lakhimpur Kheri while Avinash Krishna Singh was posted as the new DM of Mainpuri.

Additional Director of State Urban Development Agency (SUDA), Alok Singh, was made the new DM of Lalitpur while Dr Chandrabhushan Tripathi was posted as the new DM of Hamirpur.

Similarly, Arun Kumar was appointed as the new DM of Mau and Sheshmani Pandey as the new DM of Amethi.

Suraj Patel was posted as joint magistrate of Meerut and Anuraj Jain as a joint magistrate of Kanpur.

Meanwhile, the IPS shifted on Thursday included SP of Kanpur (Outer) Ashtabhuja Prasad Singh who was attached with the DGP headquarters in Lucknow and SP Regional Intelligence in Prayagraj, Ajit Kumar Sinha was made the new SP of Kanpur Outer. SP (Crime) in Aligarh, Rajesh Kumar Srivastava, was shifted as Commandant of 41the Battalion PAC in Ghaziabad, SP (Rural) in Jaunpur, Tribhuvan Singh, was made Commandant of 30the Battalion PAC in Gonda, Shashikant was posted as SP, Public Grievances Cell, at DGP headquarters, while SP (Traffic) in Gorakhpur, Ram Sewak Gautam, was made the deputy commissioner of police at Kanpur police commissionerate.

SP Barabanki (North) Awadesh Singh was made the new SP Railway, Gorakhpur, SP (City) in Azamgarh, Pankaj Kumar Pandey, was transferred as SP to DGP headquarters in Lucknow and SP (East) in Pratapgarh, Shri Prakash Dwivedi, was shifted as SP of UP Power Corporation Limited.

The state government has reshuffled at least 21 IPS officers in the past two days and more transfers are expected before the model code of conduct comes into force for the upcoming assembly polls.

Earlier on Tuesday, the state government had transferred 12 IPS officers, including IGs of Kanpur and Agra Ranges.