Punjab state promotes eight as ADGP

Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, January 27

The state government today promoted eight police officials to the rank of Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) with effect from January 1. The police also ordered transfers/postings of 19 officers with immediate effect.

Those promoted are AS Rai, Parveen Kumar Sinha, Anita Punj, V Neeraj, Sudhanshu S Srivastva, Naresh Kumar, B Chandrashekhar and Ram Singh.

Under the main transfer orders, the Intelligence department would be headed by ADGP Varinder Kumar while the incumbent Director General of Police (DGP) VK Bhawra has been transferred as DGP-Homeguards and Civil Defence. Hardial Singh Mann has been posted as DIG, Ferozepur.

Others postings

Parveen Kumar Sinha is ADGP, Prisons; Anita Punj is Director, Police Academy, Phillaur; Gurpreet Kaur Deo is ADGP, Community Affairs, Women and Child Affairs; SK Asthana, ADGP, Human Rights; Shashi Prabha Dwivedi, ADGP, Local and Nodal Officer, Punjab Election Commission; Naresh Kumar, ADGP Crime. Ram Singh is ADGP, Modernisation; SS Srivastva is ADGP, NRI Affairs and Security; B Chandra Shekhar is ADGP, Crime; AS Rai is ADGP, Human Resource Development; V Neeraja is ADGP, Welfare; Gurinder Singh Dhillon IG, Crime; MS Chhina IG, Human Rights; Munish Chawla IG, Indian Reserve Battalion; SK Singh IG, Crime and Crime Against Women; and Vibhu Raj is IG, Modernisation.