Mukesh Ranjan
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, March 19
The Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) government on Friday issued orders promoting 15 IPS officers in the rank of Additional Directors General of police (ADGP) and transferred 25 SSP- and SP- rank officers to different locations in the Union Territory.
According to an order issued by the UT’s Home Department, four IGPs — Mukesh Singh, MK Sinha, Sunil Kumar (on pro forma basis) and Danish Rana — have been promoted as additional directors general of police (ADGP) in the higher administrative grade (Level 15 of pay matrix) with effect from January 1, 2021.
Four IPS officers of 2007 batch have been promoted to super time scale (Level 13A of pay matrix). These are Sunil Gupta, Sujit Kumar, Vivek Gupta and Mohammad Suleiman Salathia.
Beside, a major reshuffle has also been ordered in almost all the 20 districts of the UT, as IPS Sandeep Choudhary, currently SSP Anantnag, has been posted in Srinagar.
According to the order issued by the UT’s Home Department, a copy of which is with The Tribune, IPS Chandan Kohli, who is currently posted as SP Rajouri, has been transferred to Jammu replacing Shridhar Patil.
Rayees Mohammad Bhat (IPS) has been posted as SSP Baramulla, Vinod Kumar (IPS) as SSP Poonch, GV Sundeep Chakravarthy (IPS) as SP Kupwara, Shailendra Singh as SP Reasi, Imtiyaz Hussain Mir as SP Anantnag, Mohd Zaid as SP Bandipora, Ramesh Chander Kotwal as SP Kathua, Shafqat Hussain as SP Kishtwar, Tahir Saleem Khan as SP Budgam and Suhail Munawar Mir as SP Ganderbal.
While the order has directed IPS officers Shailendra Mishra, Rahul Malik, Shridhar Patil, Ambarkar Shriram Dinkar, Amod NagpureIPS, Dr. Mohd. Haseeb Mughal, Haseeb ur-Rehman, Abdul Qayoom, Rashmi Wazir, Ramesh Kumar Angral, Harmeet Singh, Javid Iqbal and Khalil Ahmad Poswal to report to the PHQ and await further posting orders.
Irshad Hussain Rather, SO to DIG, CKR Srinagar is transferred and posted as SP Hazratbal Srinagar vice Sudhanshu Verma.
