The Uttar Pradesh government on Friday transferred 26 Indian Police Service (IPS) officers.

In the major reshuffle,  ADG (Lucknow zone) Abhay Kumar Prasad has been sent to the Economic Office Wing (EOW), ADG, BR Ambedkar Police Academy Moradabad, Rajiv Krishan, was made the new ADG zone Lucknow.

The state capital has been rattled by a spate of dacoities in the past few days and the transfers seemingly are a result of the soaring crime graph in the city.

Among those transferred were PV Ramashastri, who was made ADG (Varanasi zone) after being on waitlist, ADG CB-CID Dawa Sherpa, who was sent as ADG Gorakhpur zone, DK Thakur, who was made IG (Bareilly) after being on waitlist, DIG PAC Praveen Kumar was made DIG (Law and Order), they said.

IG (Bareilly) SK Bhagat was made IG (Law and order).

Mohit Agarwal, who was the IG of Gorakhpur zone, the hometown of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, has been transferred and replaced by Neelabja Chowdhary.

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