After the approval of the Joint Cadre Authority of the AGMUT cadre Indian Police Service officers, Special Commissioner of police (Traffic) Dr Muktesh Chander was relieved from the post on Friday after his transfer order was issued on February 16.
Dr Chander has been posted to Goa as the Director General of Police Goa and will replace TN Mohan who has been transferred back to Delhi. Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), South Prem Nath who was heading the Special Investigation Team (SIT) and the case of Devayash Kakroa, six-year-old student of Ryan International School Vasant Kunj, has been relieved from the Delhi Police. Prem Nath has been asked to report to Mizoram for his next posting.
According to a senior police officer, Dr Chander, the IPS officer of batch-88 has been transferred to Goa in pursuance of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA)’s order. Besides ADGP rank officer, eight SP rank officers, including DCP South have also been relieved. Among them are DCP (Traffic) Sang Norbu Mossobi, DCP (Supreme Court Security) Mahesh Chand Bhardwaj, DCP (Traffic) Sanjay Kumar Sain, additional deputy commissioners-II Brijendra Kumar Yadav, Ghanshyam Bansal and Pranav Tayal of Outer district, North district and Southeast district respectively. Additional DCP-I (Southeast) Chandan Chowdhary has also been transferred.
Goa seemingly will be no new experience to Chander as the officer had previously served the post of DIG in the city. The 88-batch officer had also served as Additional CP (Crime) and as Joint Commissioner (Traffic) along with the post of IG in Daman and Diu.
A cyber expert, Dr Chander had also served as centre director (Cyber Division and National Critical Information Infrastructure Protection Centre) in NTRO under Prime Ministers’ Office.
However, his transfer comes ahead of the implementation of the second phase of odd-even scheme from April 15-20 with the first phase being held under his supervision.
Meanwhile, Prem Nath has been transferred to Mizoram. He had been appointed as DCP (South) in 2014 replacing then DCP BS Jaiswal. He had served DCP (Traffic) and was handling the SIT in sensitive Sunanda Pushkar case and Jawaharlal Nehru University case of anti-national sloganeering and protest.
While Mossobi is IPS officer of 2003 Batch and transferred to Arunachal Pradesh, Bhardwaj is of 2007 and is transferred to Mizoram. Chowdhary and Yadav are 2010 batch officers and are transferred to Goa and Mizoram respectively. Meanwhile, Bansal, Tayal and Sain- all 2011 batch officers are transferred to lakshwadeep and Arunachal Pradesh respectively.