The state government, late on Friday, transferred 18 IPS officers. These transfers come two months before the Assembly elections. The following is the list of officers with their new postings (in brackets).
B Dayananda, (IGP central range); Amrit Paul (IGP administration); Umesh Kumar, (IGP and secretary to government, Home department); Vipul Kumar (IGP and director, Karnataka Police Academy, Mysuru); Soumendu Mukherjee (IGP, Ballari range) and N Shivaprasad (IGP and director, security and vigilance, KSRTC); M N Anucheth (SP criminal investigation department). He will continue to hold the charge of investigation officer in special investigation team probing the Gauri Lankesh murder case.
Other transfers: Amit Singh (SP, Mysuru), Ravi D Channannavar (DCP, west in Bengaluru), Kuldeep Kumar R Jain (commandant 9th battalion, KSRP, Bengaluru), Nikham Prakash Amrit (SP, Vijayapura), Dr Bheemashankar S Guled (SP, Bengaluru Rural), G Radhika (SP, Anti-Corruption Bureau, Bengaluru), Dr Anoop A Shetty(SP, Intelligence, Bengaluru), Renuka K Sukumar (SP, Koppal district); S Girish (SP, Mandya), Kala Krishnamurthy (DCP Northeast division, Bengaluru).
