BS Sandhu is new Haryana Police chief

Pradeep Sharma

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, April 27

The Haryana Government today  appointed 1984-batch IPS officer BS Sandhu as the state’s Director General of Police (DGP). The incumbent police chief, KP Singh, is now DGP (Prisons). 

  The move is being seen as an effort to “mollify” a section of BJP legislators whose long-standing grouse has been that officials, both at the state and district level, do not care to look into their grievances.

Sources say by effecting  changes in  the police top brass, the Khattar government wants to send out a message that it is not averse to any police or administrative reshuffle in “public interest”.

KP Singh had replaced Yashpal Singhal as the police chief on April 13, 2016, after the state was rocked by the Jat quota agitation. Talks of his removal  had been doing the rounds for several weeks following a police case against the kin of a senior government functionary.

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PR Deo, a  1986-batch officer, back from deputation with the Centre, replaces Sandhu as CMD, Haryana Police Housing Corporation.