In the first major reshuffle in the Police Department before announcement of next Parliament elections, state government transferred 22 IPS officers changing five zonal IGs, several range DIGs and district police chief of lucknow. Commandant of 41 battalion PAC in Ghaziabad Praveen Kumar (11) will be new SSP of lucknow in place of J Ravinder Gaur who has been attached with DGP office.
Arun Kumar Gupta, MD cum chairman of Police Awas Nigam will now hold it as additional charge after Government posted him as DG of Uttar Pradesh Police Recruitment and Promotional Board. ADG of Uttar Pradesh Police Recruitment and Promotional Board, RR Bhatnagar will now go as ADG in Police Awas Nigam while Rajesh Pratap Singh will now hold the post of ADG (traffic) in lucknow. ADG (Police Training School) in Unnao, Vijay Kumar goes as ADG (Police Training College) in Sitapur, while IG Varanasi Zona, Gopal lal Meena, who has been promoted to ADG rank now comes to lucknow in the CB CID.
IG Bareilly Zone, Alok Sharma now goes to Meerut Zone in the same capacity while DIG Aligarh Range, Prakash D will be new IG of Varanasi Zone. IG Agra Zone, Ashutosh Pandey was presently looking after the charge of IG Meerut Zone. IG (Administration) in DGP Office, Satish Kumar Mathur will be new IG of Gorakhpur Zone in place on Zaki Ahmed who goes to Bareilly Zone in the same capacity. DIG of Saharanpur Range, Ashok Mutha Jain, will be new IG of Allahabad Zone in place of lV Anthony Dev Kumar, who will be now IG (Railways) in lucknow. DIG at PAC head quarter, Vijay Prakash goes as DIG Varanasi Range in place of A Satish Ganesh, who will now come to DG office as DIG (Public Grievances). DIG
(Police Fire Service) Pramod Kumar Mishra, will be new DIG of Allahabad Zone, in place of Dr N Ravinder, who will now come as DIG at PAC head quarter. DIG
(railways) at lucknow Durga Charan Mishra has been shifted as DIG of Moradabad range while DIG (Karmik) at lucknow Dr Sanjeev Gupta goes as DIG of Gorakhpur Range in place of MD Karndhar who will now replace Satyendra Veer Singh as DIG of Devipatan Range. Singh will now go as DIG of Aligarh range while DIG (Police Training School) in Unnao, Raghuveer lal will new DIG of Saharanpur Range.