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New Ahmedabad CP to take charge on Monday

Ahmedabad: Sanjay Srivastava, a 1987-batch IPS officer, will assume office as the Ahmedabad police commissioner on Monday.

Late on Saturday night, as many as 58 IPS officers were transferred by the Gujarat government. Sixteen State Police Service (SPS) officers were also transferred.

Additional director general of police and special commissioner of crime branch, Ajay Tomar, was posted as the Surat police commissioner. Tomar has had a long stint in the BSF, serving in Delhi, Punjab, and the Gujarat Frontier.

Tomar’s predecessor in Surat, R B Brahmbhatt — a 1998-batch IPS officer — was appointed as the Vadodara police commissioner, a position that had been occupied by Anupam Singh Gahlaut.

Now, Gahlaut — a 1997-batch IPS officer —has been appointed as the additional director general of police, intelligence bureau, in Gandhinagar. He will also be the executive director of Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam. Abhay Chudasama, a 1999-batch IPS officer and Vadodara Range inspector general of police, has been posted to the Gandhinagar Range.

Amit Kumar Vishwakarma, a 1998-batch IPS officer, has been posted as the joint commissioner of police, Ahmedabad crime branch. He was the joint commissioner of police Sector-1 in Ahmedabad. He will also be the additional director general of police (ATS and coastal security). Ahmedabad’s Sector- 2 additional commissioner Nipuna Torawane has been appointed secretary of the home department. Deputy inspector general of police, CID crime and railways, Gautam Parmar will take over Torawane’s previous post.

An IPS officer of the 2006 batch, Rajendra Asari, who was superintendent of police, Ahmedabad Rural, has been promoted as additional commissioner of police, Sector -1, in Ahmedabad. Virendra Yadav, a 2009-batch IPS officer has taken over Asari’s previous position. A 2006-batch IPS, officer Bipin Ahire has been promoted as the deputy inspector general of police and will be the joint director of the Anti-corruption Bureau.

A 2006-batch IPS officer, M K Nayak, has been elevated from the rank of superintendent of police to the level of deputy inspector general of police, railways. Nayak’s earlier position, the superintendent of the Ahmedabad central prison, has been given to an IPS officer of the 2013 batch, Rohan Anand.

Another 2006-batch IPS officer, P L Mal, has been promoted to the rank of deputy inspector general police and has been posted in Sector -1 of Surat, He was deputy commissioner of police, Zone -1, in Ahmedabad. A 2016-batch IPS officer Ravindra Patel has taken over Mal’s Zone-1 position.

SPS officer and deputy commissioner of police, cybercrime cell of Ahmedabad, Rajdeepsinh Zala has been transferred as superintendent of police Valsad. Zala takes over from a 2010-batch IPS officer Sunil Joshi who has been appointed as the superintendent of police of Dev Bhoomi Dwarka. Amit Vasava, a 2006-batch IPS officer, has taken over Zala’s position in handling cybercrime.

A 2008-batch IPS officer, Neeraj Badgujar, who was DCP Zone-4 in Ahmedabad has been transferred as SP of Police Technical Service in Gandhinagar.

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