UP DGP removed for 'neglecting work', assigned Civil Defence department

Additional Director General of Police (Law and Order) Prashant Kumar has been given the additional charge of the state's police chief.

Published: 11th May 2022 10:01 PM  |   Last Updated: 11th May 2022 10:28 PM   |  A+A A-

Uttar Pradesh DGP Mukul Goyal transferred and posted as DG Civil Security. (Photo | ANI Twitter)

By PTI

LUCKNOW: In an unprecedented move, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday removed Director General of Police (DGP) Mukul Goel from his post for inefficiency and neglecting his work, an official statement said.

Additional Director General of Police (Law and Order) Prashant Kumar has been given the additional charge of the state's police chief, Additional Chief Secretary (Information) Navneet Sehgal told PTI.

Goel has been made the Director General (DG) of the Civil Defence department, the statement said. It added that Goel was removed from the post of DGP for neglecting official work, not taking interest in departmental work and inefficiency.

Goel, a 1987-batch IPS officer, was appointed the Uttar Pradesh police chief in June last year. Before that, he had served as an additional director general of the Border Security Force.

Born in Muzaffarnagar, Goel has a B.Tech degree in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

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