Over 200 officials transferred in Jammu and Kashmir ahead of election announcement

Ahead of the announcement by the Election Commission of India (ECI)on Friday (Aug 16)about the Assembly Elections in Jammu and Kashmir, the central and state governments have announced transfers of over 200 officers in the Union Territory.

The administration and police both have done a major reshuffle with immediate effect.

Jammu and Kashmirpolice got a new DGP and more than 30 officers of thedepartment have been transferred.

The list includes DIG and SSP-level officers. The government has appointed Nitish Kumar (IPS) as the head of CID with immediate effect. According to three separate orders, Nitish Kumar, IPS, ADGP CID has been posted as head of CID, relieving R R Swain, IPS DGP, and J&K of the additional charge of the post.

Bhim Sen Tuti, IPS, IGP (Hqrs) PHQ, IGP PHQ with additional charge of IGP (POS) and IGP Traffic has been posted as IGP (POS) with additional charge of IGP (Hqrs) PHQ, IGP (Telecom). Sunil Gupta, IPS, has been posted as Incharge IGP Crime, J&K, relieving Deepak Kumar, IPS of the additional charge of the post, according to the order.

Sujit Kumar, IPS, has been posted as Incharge of IGP Security, J&K, relieving M KSinha, IPS of the additional charge of the post. Vivek Gupta, IPS, has been posted as the Incharge of IGP Railways J&K, relieving S J MGillani, IPS, in charge of the railways wing.

M Suleman Choudhary, IPS has been posted as Incharge IGP traffic. Dr Ajeet Singh, IPS, has been posted as DIG Traffic Kashmir against an available vacancy. Dr Vinod Kumar, IPS, has been posted as in chargeof DIG Armed Jammu.

Maqsood-ul-Zaman, IPS, has been posted as in charge of DIG North Kashmir, Baramulla. Mubassir Latifi Ameer, IPS, has been posted as in charge of DIR (Pers) PHQ. Shiv Kumar, IPS, has been posted as DIG Jammu-Samba-Kathua Range. Rashmi Wazir, IPS, has been posted as DIG security, J&K, against available vacancy Rajeshwar Singh, IPS, has been posted as in charge of DIG SIA.

Also, 21 other officers of various AGMUT cadres and JKPS were also ordered to be shifted.

Gurinderpal Singh was posted as SSP Baramulla, Nagpure Amod Ashok as SSP Udhampur, Amritpal Singh as SSP (Tech) CID Hqrs, Mumtaz Ahmed as SSP Poonch, and Mohammad Aslam as SSP Doda vice Javid Iqbal, who has been asked to await further postings at PHQ.

Sandeep Gupta as AIG (Tech) PHQ, Anuj Kumar as CO IR-11, Ms Tunushree as SP SIA Kashmir, Ananyat Ali Choudhary as SSP Shopian,Mohita Sharma as AIG (Prov) PHQ, Deepika as SSP Kathua, Gaurav Sikawar as SSP Reasi, Kulbir Singh as SSP Ramban, Joginder Singh as SSP Jammu, Ashok Kumar Sharma as CO 1 Border Battalion Jammu, Wasim Qadri as SSP Ganderbal, Yougal Kumar Manhas as SSP SIA Jammu, Tahir Geelani as AIG (procurement) PHQ, Shaheen Wahid as SSP telecom Jammu, Sandeep Bhat as Additional SP Udhampur and Baljeet Singh as Additional SP Nowshera.

In the Jammu and Kashmir administrations, several special secretaries, deputy commissioners and SDMs were transferred as well. Shakeel UI Rehman Rather, IAS, deputy commissioner, Bandipora, is transferred and posted as Directorof Floriculture, Parks and Gardens, Kashmir. Mathora Masoom, JKAS, Director, Urban Local Bodies, Kashmir, is transferred and posted as special secretary to the government, tourism department.