MP CM transfers four IPS officers in state for 'regrettable conduct'

New Delhi, June 2

Four IPS officers in Madhya Pradesh, including an Inspector General of Police and a Deputy Inspector General, were transferred over what Chief Minister Mohan Yadav Sunday called “regrettable public conduct”.

In a post on X, MP CM Mohan Yadav said, "The Superintendent of Police of Katni and the Superintendent of Police of Datia, and IG, DIG Chambal Range have behaved in a manner which is regrettable in public service. For this reason, I have given instructions to remove them with immediate effect.”

In Datia, an internal altercation during arrangements for the airport inauguration ceremony on May 31 reportedly occurred between the IG, DIG, and SP, in front of BJP workers and the public.

Chambal IG Sushant Saxena, DIG Kumar Saurabh, and Katni SP Virendra Mishra had got into a heated argument with each other publicly over some issue at the Datia airport on 31 May, during the programme of the airport’s virtual inauguration by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Similarly, Katni SP Abhijeet Ranjan was transferred from his post because of an alleged incident in which relatives of a Tehsildar and his CSP wife were manhandled by the police. 

All four officers have been removed from field postings and shifted to the Police Headquarters (PHQ) at Bhopal.

The State Government also conducted routine transfers of about six other IPS Officers.

Among them, Sagar Zone IG Pramod Verma has been made the IG of Jabalpur Zone. Verma is also the head of the three-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) of senior IPS Officers of MP, constituted on the Supreme Court’s directives, which is probing the case of State Tribal Affairs Minister Vijay Shah’s public speech in which he made derogatory statements about Indian Army Colonel Sofiya Quereshi.