The Yogi Adityanath government on Sunday promoted eight senior IPS officers and gave them the same posting on higher ranks.
According to an official communiqué of the Home Department, these IPS officers in the state were recently promoted from IG to the post of ADG, DIG to IG and SP to DIG.
Vijay Prakash has been promoted as ADG (Fire Service) from IG rank while IG (STF) Amitabh Yash has been made ADG (STF). Till now the post of ADG (STF) was with ADG (Law and Order) Prashant Kumar.
Similarly IG Navniet Sekera has been posted as ADG in Housing and Welfare at Police Headquarters while Vinay Kumar Yadav has been promoted from DIG to IG (Prosecution) and DIG Hiralal has been promoted as IG (EOW, Lucknow).
DIG (PTC, Moradabad) Shiv Shankar Singh has been promoted to IG (PTC). SP Women Power Line 1090 Ravi Shankar has been promoted as DIG and SP Technical Services Pratibha Ambedkar has been promoted to DIG rank.