In a major reshuffle, lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung on Friday transferred 35 police officials, including Deputy Commissioner of Police (New Delhi) Vijay Singh, who was involved in the crackdown on agitating army veterans demanding One-Rank-One-Pension at Jantar Mantar in Delhi on August 14.
Singh has been transferred to the North-West district of the Delhi Police, a senior police official said, adding additional DCP in New Delhi district Jatin Narwal, who originally belongs to 2006 batch of Indian Police Service of Jharkhand cadre will replace him.
Vijay Singh will replace DCP N Gnanasambandan of North West district, who has been transferred to the Police Training College as its new Vice-Principal, a Delhi
Police release said on Friday. The reshuffle included six officials of ACP rank who have been transferred as DCPs on promotion, the
official added.
In a significant transfer Deputy Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) Sanjeev Yadav, who has served at the counter-terrorism unit for around eight years, has been transferred to the New Delhi district as Additional DCP II. Yadav— the recipient of President's Gallantry Medal six times — has served in Special Cell in two separate tenures - once as ACP and again as DCP.
Additional DCP (South) Pramod Singh Kushwah, who is also a member of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) set up by the Delhi Police Commissioner BS Bassi to probe the Sunanda Pushkar murder case, will be taking charge as DCP Special Cell. Kushwah had served both with Crime Branch and Special Cell before, said the official.
In Delhi Police Crime Branch, the only change is replacement of one of the four DCP rank officials. DCP (Crime) Dinesh Kumar Gupta has been transferred to the IGI Airport and his position has been given to Dr Rajiv Sharma, who is yet to join the department on completion of training, said the senior official.
DCP Mohammad Irshaad Haider of IGI Airport and Additional DCP II (South) Rajiv Ranjan have both been transferred to the Economic Offences Wing (EOW), the senior official added.
Additional Commissioner of Police East district Ajay Kumar has been posted to security while Bhairon Singh currently posted as DCP Security has been sent as DCP East. Anil Kumar Ojha, the Additional Commissioner of Police Security has been posted to Traffic Police.
Sweta Chauhan, the Additional DCP-I of Outer district has been transferred as DCP Traffic while Milind Dambure a 2006 batch IPS officer has been posted as DCP, Railways in place of Sanjay Bhatia who has been sent to South district as Additional DCP-II.
Rajiv Ranjan the Additional DCP-II South district has been posted to EOW as DCP. Mohammad Ali currently posted as Additional DCP-II of South east district has been posted in the
same capacity in the communally sensitive North East
district.
Sanjay Sain, IPS officer of 2011 batch and posted as Additional DCP-II has been sent to Traffic Police as DCP.