Maharashtra government transfers over 50 IPS officers

In a major rejig, the Maharashtra government on Thursday transferred over 50 IPS officers, including the home department's principal secretary (special) Amitabh Gupta. Gupta will be the new police commissioner of Pune, while Vineet Agrawal, ADGP Maharashtra State Security Corporation (MSSC) has been appointed to the post. The Maharashtra government said that 41 officers have been allotted new postings, while the remaining officials have not yet been given new postings.

Mr. Amitabh Gupta was in news earlier this year after he allowed businessmen brothers Kapil and Dheeraj Wadhawan,



under scanner in connection with the alleged Yes Bank and Punjab and Maharashtra Cooperative Bank scams, to travel from Khandala near Pune to Mahabaleshwar in Satara district.

Later he was sent on compulsory leave by the state government following uproar over the travel permit, but was then exonerated by a panel probing the matter. As for the newly appointed home department's principal secretary (special), Vineet Agrawal, a 1994 IPS officer, before being appointed as ADGP at MSSC was the Enforcement Directorate’s special director in Mumbai.