IPS officials transferred in Uttar Pradesh

Lucknow May 18: The Yogi Adityanath govt in Uttar Pradesh transferred 67 Indian Police Service (IPS) officers here on Wednesday.

In the ongoing session of the state assembly, the opposition had attacked the govt on the law and order issue.

However, The reshuffle comes against the backdrop of allegations that there has been the spurt in crime after the new government took over in the state.

With Wednesday's transfers, around 200 senior police officials have been shifted since the Adityanath government came to power in UP in March.

Salman Taj Patil, who was posted in Ghaziabad, has been named as the new Superintendent of Police, Lalitpur, and Rakesh Prakash Singh, the new SP of Maharajganj.

Meanwhile, Additional Director General of Police S.N. Rawat has been sent as ADG, Allahabad zone while Ramit Sharma, hitherto Inspector General of Police, Technical has been posted as the new IGP, Allahabad. J.K. Shukla, the Superintendent of Police, law and order has been posted as the SSP Jhansi, while Anand Kulkarni has been named as the new district police chief of Allahabad.