The Manohar lal Khattar Government in Haryana on Thursday decided to replace KP Singh as the State Director General of Police (DGP) with Baljit Singh Sandhu. Sandhu, who is from 1984 batch of Indian Police Service (IPS), will move from his post of chairman and managing director, Haryana Police Housing Corporation while KP Singh, a 1985-batch IPS officer, has been posted as Director General, Prisons. The decision to remove KP Singh is being seen as an attempt by the Chief Minister to pacify more than a dozen party MlAs, who have expressed their unhappiness over the functioning of civil and police bureaucracy in the State.
Meanwhile, the State Government has alsoa issued transfers and posting orders of four more IPS officers and one HPS officer. K Selvaraj, Commandant General, Home Guard and Director, Civil Defence (Headquarters), Chandigarh has been posted as DGP, Railways and OSD Rules, Police Headquarters, Panchkula while Rajvant Pal Singh, DGP/OSD Rules, Police Headquarters, Panchkula goes as Commandant General, Home Guard and Director, Civil Defence (Headquarters), Chandigarh. PR Deo awaiting posting upon return from Government of India has been posted as Managing Director, Haryana Police Housing Corporation while Desh Raj Singh, ADGP/CPT&R and Community Policing, Bhondsi has been posted as ADGP, Sunaria Complex. Kamal Deep Goyal, HPS, Superintendent of Police, Railways, Ambala has been posted as SP, State Crime Bureau in addition to his present duties.