Amritsar Commissioner of Police among 18 officers shifted by Punjab govt

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Amritsar Commissioner of Police among 18 officers shifted by Punjab govt

Wednesday, 01 March 2023 | PNS | Chandigarh

Top heavy with three officers in the Director General of Police (DGP)-rank, 11 in the special DGP rank, and 20 in the rank of Additional DGP (ADGP), the Punjab Police force on Tuesday witnessed a shifting of 18 police officers, including 16 IPS.
 
Currently, three Punjab Police officers of DGP level — Samant Goel, Dinkar Gupta, Harpreet Singh Sidhu; along with ADGP Kapil Dev are on central deputation.
 
Among Tuesday’s orders by the Department of Home Affairs and Justice, senior IPS officer Naunihal Singh has been posted as Commissioner of Police in Amritsar, replacing Jaskaran Singh — who has been posted as Inspector General of Police (Intelligence), Mohali.
 
The Amritsar Police Commissioner was shifted days after self-styled Sikh preacher and Khalistani sympathizer Amritpal Singh and his supporters, some of them brandishing swords and guns, broke through barricades and barged into the Ajnala police station on the outskirts of the Amritsar city, securing the release of kidnapping case accused Lovepreet Singh. Six policemen, including DSP and former international hockey player Jugraj Singh, were injured in this incident last week.
 
IPS officer RK Jaiswal has been posted as ADGP STF Punjab against the vacant post, while Mohnish Chawla has been posted as ADGP State Crime Record Bureau.
 
As per the orders, Gurinder Singh Dhillon has been posted as ADGP (Law and Order), while making it clear that ADGP Arpit Shukla will head the Law and Order wing and “all the Officers posted in this wing shall report to him”.
 
Among others who were given new posting orders include senior IPS officers Arun Pal Singh as ADGP (Modernization); SPS Parmar as ADGP, Bathinda Range; Gursharan Singh Sandhu as IGP (Crime); Baljot Singh Rathore as IGP (GRP), Patiala; Gurpreet Singh Bhullar as IGP (AGTF) in addition to IGP (Rupnagar range), among others.
 
Bajwa seeks ED probe on Punjab's excise policy 
 
Chandigarh:  Following the arrest of Delhi's Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia in a case relating to Delhi's excise policy, the Leader of Opposition in Punjab Vidhan Sabha Partap Singh Bajwa on Tuesday sought a thorough probe by the Enforcement Directorate on Punjab's liquor policy.   Bajwa said that the AAP, after forming the government in Punjab, had implemented a similar excise policy in Punjab. “Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann-led AAP government’s liquor policy also becomes suspicious as it gave undue favours to a very few liquor companies and traders while the other pushed out of the competition,” Bajwa alleged.  
 

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