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Major reshuffle expected in Maharashtra Police leadership

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The State Home Department in Maharashtra is gearing up for a significant overhaul of its top police leadership, including the position of Director General of Police (DGP) and Police Commissioners of Nagpur and Thane. The impending retirement of the current DGP, Rajnish Seth, on December 31 has prompted the department to commence the process of selecting his successor.A top rank official said that several prominent names have emerged as contenders for the esteemed position of State DGP. The frontrunner is Senior IPS Officer Rashmi Shukla, who currently serves as the Director General (DG) of Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB). Mumbai Police Commissioner Vivek Phansalkar is also a strong candidate for the role. Other notable contenders include Thane CP Jaijeet Singh, DG ATS Sadanand Date, DG Police Housing Sandeep Bishnoi, DG Railway Pradnya Sarvade, Additional Director of NIA Atulchandra Kulkarni, and DG State Security Corporation Bipin Kumar Singh, he said. He further stated that the State Home
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Maharashtra Police awaits governments nod for minor shuffle in top ranks

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By Dheeraj Fartode

Democratic Front government is deliberating on major changes in the top echelons of Maharashtra Police, that includes filling-up of vacancies by way of promotions from Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) to Director General of Police (DGP). Departmental Promotion Committee (DPC) has cleared the promotion list and same is at Mantralay awaiting clearance from coalition partners, said the top officials.
The ball would be set rolling as and when Mumbai’s Commissioner of Police, Dr. Satyapal Singh, who belongs to 1980 batch of Indian Police Service (IPS) is elevated. Right now the post of DG (Home Guards) is vacant but sources said as Dr. Singh’s is yet to complete a year he is not very eager to move-up in rank though he is due for promotion ever since DGP (Home Guards) Sridevi Goyal superannuated.
To succeed Dr. Singh, there are two strong contenders and they are Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) Javed Ahmed, currently working in Mumbai Police Commissionerate, and the other name is that of Thane Commissioner of Police K P Raghuwanshi. Two other names are also being discussed in police circle that of ADG (Traffic) V R Kamble and Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) chief Rakesh Maria.
Director General of Police (DGP) Sanjeev Dayal told ‘The Hitavada’ that Departmental Promotion Committee (DPC) have sanctioned promotions of senior officers in their meeting held last month and we are waiting for approval of State Government.
Sources informed that three ADGP’s posts including ADG (Administration), ADG (Anti-Corruption Bureau) and ADG (Railways) are vacant for past one year. IPS’s 1987 batch officers including Spl. Inspector General (IGP) Coastal Security S N Pandey, Spl. IGP Crime (East and West) CID D Kanakratnam are tipped to get promoted as ADG. DIG (Passport) Vikram Choubey and DIG Amitesh Kumar (Additional CP ATS) names have been cleared for promotion as Special Inspector General of Police (IGP).
There are strong possibilities of promotion to DIG of 1999 IPS batch officers Deepak Pandey (SP Ratnagiri), Kiran Shelar (Mumbai Commissionerate), Nanded SP Vitthal Jadhav, P S Patankar.

Nagpur Rural SP, DCP ACB
could get new postings
At Nagpur Police Commissionerate, the top two officers, Commissioner of Police and Jt. Commissioner of Police would not be disturbed. However, Superintendent of Police, Nagpur Rural, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Anti-Corruption Bureau), DCP Zone I and DCP Zone II are likely to get new postings in the general transfers that are on cards.

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