H N S Rao retires after brief posting

On the day of his retirement on Monday, DGP H N Sathyanarayana Rao was posted as the Director General of Police and Commandant General, Home Guards and Director, Fire Force for a brief one hour on Monday.

He formally took charge at the Fire and Emergency Services headquarters in Halasuru on Monday evening around 7 pm and later retired from service after an hour.

The brief posting formality was done since it would be a problem for a senior IPS officer to retire without a posting as it would affect his pension and other retirement benefits, sources said.

Meanwhile, Neelmani N Raju, director general of police, Internal Security, Bengaluru will have concurrent charge of Rao’s post from Tuesday.

Neelmani is placed in concurrent charge of the post of director general of police and Commandant General, Home Guards, ex-officio director Fire Force, Bengaluru, with effect from August 1, and until further orders in the vacancy arising out of the retirement of Rao, the order stated.

Rao was asked to go on leave after the recent prison fracas where his deputy D Roopa submitted a report on prison irregularities.Rao told reporters that he was instructed by the government not to speak to the media and he did not, whereas Roopa spoke to the media and, the government will take care of it. When asked about the legal notice sent to Roopa and the defamation case, he said, “Wait and watch.”

New DGP Intelligence

Ashit Mohan Prasad, ADGPCommunication Logistics and Modernisation, Bengaluru, has been promoted to the rank of DGP and has been posted as director general of police, Intelligence, Bengaluru relieving Amrit Paul (IPS) who was holding concurrent charge, the government order stated.