Maharashtra: 606 Policemen Transferred In Beed, 21 IPS Officers Shifted Statewide In Major Reshuffle

Mumbai: The authorities on Thursday transferred 606 policemen in the Beed district, which had come under the spotlight after the murder of sarpanch Santosh Deshmukh last year.

Of these cops, in the ranks of constables to police subinspectors, 226 have completed 12 years in the same tehsil, the department said. The district has nearly 2,100 policemen.

In another major rejig, the state home department on Thursday transferred 21 IPS officers at the deputy commissioner of police (DCP) level. The reshuffle includes three new DCPs for Mumbai, namely Rakesh Ola, Sameer Aslam Shaikh and Rajtilak Roshan.

Ola was previously the superintendent of police (SP) of Ahilyanagar, while Shaikh was the former SP of Satara. Roshan, who was serving in the director general of police office, will now serve in

Mumbai. Mahendra Pandit, SP of Kolhapur, has been transferred as DCP Thane, while Yogesh Kumar Gupta replaces him as SP Kolhapur.

Meanwhile, DCP Mangesh Shinde, who was heading the Special Task Force and the Economic Offences Wing (EOW), has been transferred as Superintendent of Railway Police in Nagpur. During his tenure at the EOW, he was investigating cases involving the New India Bank scam and a housing fraud case wherein IPS officer Rashmi Karandikar’s husband, Purushottam Chavan, wasarrested.