5 IAS, 31 IPS officers transferred

The State government on Thursday transferred five IAS and 31 IPS officers. Senior IAS officer G Latha Krishna Rau is the new Additional Chief Secretary-cum-Development Commissioner. She takes the post held by her husband G V Krishna Rau, who retired on Wednesday.

In all, the government transferred five IAS officers. Three senior IAS officers - Rau, Amaranarayana and K R Niranjan retired from service on Thursday.

Following are the new postings of the officers: P Ravi Kumar - Additional Chief Secretary, Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs Department; P Manivannan - Managing Director, Karnataka Urban Water Supply and Drainage Board; Ramegowda - Commissioner for Transport and Road Safety, Bangalore, and S Ziyaullah - Commissioner for Backward Classes Welfare.

IPS transfers

In a major reshuffle, the government has transferred 31 IPS officers including DCP (South-East) of Bangalore in whose jurisdiction a six-year-old girl was raped recently.

DCP (Central) B R Ravikanthe Gowda too has been transferred.

The drunken brawl at Skyye Bar involving Congress MLA Vijayananad Kashappanavar and the ADGP Dr P Ravindranath episode had taken place in his jurisdiction. Dr Ravindranath had also filed a case against Gowda under the SC/ST Atrocities Prevention Act.

New postings

Praveen Sood - Additional Director General of Police and Principal Secretary, Home Department ; Rajvir Pratap Sharma - Additional Director General of Police, Railways; T Suneel Kumar - Additional Director General of Police, Bangalore Metropolitan Task Force, Bangalore; Sunil Agarwal - Inspector General of Police, Administration (Chief Office), Bangalore; C H Pratap Reddy - Inspector General of Police, Internal Security Division Operations (ATC); K  Ramachandra Rao Inspector- General of Police and Commissioner of Traffic Road Safety, Bangalore; Arun Chakravarthy J - Inspector General of Police, Headquarter-I, Bangalore; Seemanth Kumar Singh - Managing Director, Karnataka State Police Housing Corporation Ltd; K V Sharat Chandra - Deputy Inspector General of Police, Training; B Shivakumar - Deputy Inspector General of Police and Principal, Police Training College, Gulbarga; H S Venkatesh: Director, Youth Empowerment and Sports Department; L Sonia Narang - Deputy Commissioner of Police, Administration, Bangalore City; N Satheesh Kumar: Deputy Commissioner of Police, East Division, Bangalore; D Prakash: Superintendent of Police, Chitradurga District;T R  Suresh: Deputy Commissioner  of Police, North Division, Bangalore; Sandeep Patil: Deputy Commissioner of  Police, Central Division, Bangalore; Vikash Kumar Vikash: Deputy Commissioner of Police, North East Division, Bangalore; T D  Pawar: Superintendent of Police, Koppal district; B R Ravikanthe Gowda: Superintendent of Police, Bijapur; Y S Ravikumar: Superintendent of Police, Intelligence, Bangalore; Ram Nivas Sepat: Commandant, 1st Battalion, Karnataka State Reserve Police; M B Boralingaiah: Superintendent of Police, Davanagere district; Rohini Katoch Sepat - Deputy Commissioner of Police, South East Division, Bangalore City; C  Vamshi Krishna - Assistant Inspector General of Police, General, State Police Headquarters, Bangalore; B S Lokesh Kumar - Deputy Commissioner of Police, South Division, Bangalore City; P  Rajendraprasad: Superintendent of Police, Udupi district, H R Bhagavan Das - Superintendent of Police, Kolar Gold Fields; Vartika Katiyar - Superintendent of Police, Dharwad district; S Rangaswamy Naik: Superintendent of Police, Chamarajanagar and M Muthuraya- Superintendent of Police, Yadgir district.