The state government made a major reshuffle in the police set-up shifting 25 IPS officers including ADG Zone and IG Range of Lucknow on Friday.
While ADG (Lucknow zone) Abhay Kumar Prasad was sent to Economic Offences Wing (EOW), ADG, BR Ambedkar Police Academy Moradabad, Rajiv Krishna was made the new ADG zone of Lucknow.
Similarly IG Lucknow Range JN Singh was replaced by Sujit Pandey who was till now posted as IG (Telecom). Singh was shifted to PAC head-quarters.
PV Ramashastri, who was awaiting posting, was posted as ADG of Varanasi zone replacing Viswajeet Mahapatra, who will now join as ADG in Anti-Corruption Organisation in Lucknow. ADG CB-CID Dawa Sherpa has been sent as ADG Gorakhpur Zone in place of Mohit Agarwal.
IG Budget in PHQ, KSP Kumar will be ADG of DR BR Ambedkar Police Academy in Moradabad.
IG Range, Mirzapur, Prem Prakash will be ADG of Bareilly Zone, While Hariram Sharma will be ADG Police Administration. Piyush Anand, will be ADG Establishment in place of SB Shirodkar, who goes to Intelligence department in the same capacity.
IG Crime, Sunil Gupta, will be ADG CB CID while IG Railways, Vinod Kumar will be the new IG Range of Moradabad in place of Onkar Singh who will now join as IG of Faizabad Range replacing Vijay Prakash, who comes to DGP office.
Dr Manoj Tewari will be DIG of Chitrakut Dham range in place of Gyaneshwar Tewari who goes as IG PTC in Sitapur. DK Thakur, was made IG (Bareilly) after returningfrom Central deputation, while DIG PAC, Praveen Kumar was made DIG (Law and Order).
IG (Bareilly) SK Bhagat was made IG (Law and order). IG Public Grievance, Vijay Singh Meena will be IG of Mirzapur range, while IG of Gorakhpur Range, Mohit Agarwal will now replace Meena in Lucknow.
Neelabja Chaudhary will be IG of Gorakhpur Range. IG Police Recruitment, Sharad Sachan will be the new IG of Saharanpur range in place of KS Emmanuel, who will now proceed on Central deputation.