Aurangabad: Chiranjeev Prasad, a 1996-batch IPS officer, was on Monday appointed as Commissioner of Police of Aurangabad, a Maharashtra Home Department notification said.
The city was without a full-time police chief since March 15 this year when the then Police Commissioner Yashaswi Yadav was sent on compulsory leave in the wake of law and order problems over a garbage dumping issue.
Prasad was the Inspector General of Nanded Range before Monday’s appointment. Aurangabad Range Inspector General of Police, Millind Bharambe, a 1997 batch IPS officer, was holding charge in the absence of a full-time commissioner. During this period, the city, among the important urban centres in central Maharashtra, was rocked by riots between two communities on May 11.