Assam transfers 6 IGPs

As many as six senior IPS officers of the rank of IGP were transferred as the Assam government ordered a major reshuffle in the police on Tuesday evening.

Bhaskar Jyoti Mahanta,IGP (Law and Order),has been transferred as IGP (Training and Armed Police). No officer has been named to replace him. Pallab Bhattacharyya,IGP (Central & Western Range),who is also in charge of Guwahati City,has been transferred as IGP (Special Branch). He has been replaced by GP Singh,who was IGP (Northern Range) posted at Tezpur. Jyotirmoy Chakravarty,who has just returned after completion of his deputation to NSG,has been posted as IGP (Security) in place of S N Singh,who goes as IGP (Fire Service). D N Hazarika,who was IGP (Southern Range) at Silchar,has been brought to Guwahati as IGP (Special Operations Unit).

The transfers came less than a week after the embarrassment of failing to anticipate a major anti-eviction protest in Guwahati. The police had to use force after several officers were beaten up by the protesters.