10 IPS including ADG rank officers transferred, 4 given additional charge

Ranchi, The state government on Tuesday executed a major administrative reshuffle in Jharkhand in which 10 IPS officers including three ADG rank officials have been transferred and posted while four others have been given additional charge.

A notification in this regard was been issued by the Home Prison and Disaster Management Department.

As per the notification ADG CID Anil Palta has been transferred as ADG Rail while ADG Headquarters RK Mallik has been transferred as ADG Communication and Technical Services, ADG Rail Prashant Singh has been transferred as ADG CID while ADG Special Cell ML Meena has been given additional charge of ADG headquarters.

SP Special Cell Dhananjay Kumar Singh has been transferred as Superintendent of Police Deoghar, SP Deoghar Ashwini Kumar Sinha has been directed to join the police headquarters. SP traffic Ranchi Ajit Peter Dungdung has been transferred as SP Jharkhand Jaguar STF Ranchi while Mohammed Arshi SP Saraikela has been instructed to join the police headquarters.

Nidhi Dwevdi who was awaiting posting has been posted as Commandent of Jharkhand Armed Police-8 Palamu while Anjani Anjan SP ATS Jharkhand Ranchi has been transferred as SP Traffic Ranchi.

SP Rail Jamshedpur Anand Prakash has been appointed as the new SP of Saraikela district.

Commandent of Jharkhand Armed Police-10 Mahila Vahini Sandhya Rani Mehta has been given additional charge of SP Anti Corruption Bureau. Further SP JAPTC Padma, Kishore Kaushal has been given additional charge of SP Anti Corruption Bureau while SP CTC Musabani Aman Kumar has been also given additional charge as SP Anti Corruption Bureau.

(EW News Desk)

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