In a major reshuffle, Punjab Government on Wednesday ordered transfer and posting of 31 senior police officers, including eight district police chiefs.
The transferred IPS officers included Inspector General of Police (Border Range), Amritsar, Ishwar Chander, who has been shifted to Bathinda Zone. Notably, Gurdaspur district, which witnessed terror attack last week, falls under the jurisdiction of IG (Border Range) Amritsar.
Chander has been replaced by IG lok Nath Angara, who has been transferred from Jalandher zone.
Senior officer IPS Sahota, Director, Bureau of Investigation, has been given additional charge of ADGP Security. Among the Additional Director Generals of Police (ADGP) rank officers, Rohit Choudhary has been posted as ADGP/law and Order with additional charge of ADGP/GRP Punjab.
CSR Reddy has been transferred as ADGP/Provisioning and Modernisation and V K Bhawra was given the charge of ADGP/IT&T. Dinkar Gupta was shifted to ADGP/Welfare.
Among IG rank officers, B K Bawa and Paramaj Singh were given the charge of IG Jalandhar zone and Commissioner of Police (ludhiana) respectively. IPS officer Parmod Ban has been posted as IG, Counter Intelligence and SPU, replacing Gaurav Yadav who has been given the charge of IG/Headquarters.
IPS Officer Arpit Shukla has been posted as IG Security while l K Yadav was posted as IG/PAP Jalandhar. Naresh Arora will handle the charge of IG Training cum Additional Director PPA.
Among DIG rank officers, AK Mittal has been shifted from DIG (Border Range) Amritsar to DIG, ludhiana Range. Kunwar Vijay Partap Singh gets the charge of DIG (Border Range), Amritsar while Arunpal Singh has been transferred as DIG, Jalandhar range.
Among SSPs who were given new postings are RK Bakshi, Pathankot, replacing Rakesh Kaushal, who has been transferred as Commandant PRTC.
Jatinder Singh Khaira was posted as SSP Fatehgarh Sahib while Sukhminder Singh will be SSP Faridkot. Mandeep Singh, Dhanpreet Kaur, Charanjit Singh, Rajinder Singh and Harpreet Singh were posted as SSPs of Mansa, Hoshiarpur, Moga, Kapurthala and Batala respectively.
Bhupinder Singh Khatra has been posted as AIG Traffic.