Lucknow News: An order has been issued to promote Special Director General of Police (Law and Order) Prashant Kumar to the post of Director General of Police (DG) in Uttar Pradesh. Prashant Kumar will take over the new charge from January 1, 2024. 1990 batch IPS officer Prashant Kumar is counted among the flamboyant IPS officers of UP. Due to his working style, he is included in the list of trusted officers of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. Be it big success or important developments on the law and order front in the state, in every case Prashant Kumar is seen taking the responsibility from the front. Prashant Kumar was born in Siwan district of Bihar. He was selected in Tamil Nadu cadre. Later, due to personal reasons, he was transferred to UP cadre in the year 1994. Prashant Kumar is especially known for curbing crime. Due to this, he has been given the responsibility of a very important post in the Yogi government.
Prashant Kumar remained in the headlines due to encounter and other matters.
It is said about the flamboyant UP Police officer Prashant Kumar that he has carried out more than 300 encounters so far, while more than a thousand criminals have been encountered under his direction. He has been awarded many medals. Prashant Kumar has also come in the news for his moustache. Along with this, he has also been in the news for showering flowers on Kavadis. Along with this, 72 other IPS officers have also got promotion. The posting order of these promoted officers will be issued separately on the first day of the new year.
This officer became IG from DIG
This was approved in the meeting of the Departmental Promotion Committee of IPS officers in the UP Police Department. After the permission of Governor Anniben Patel, Principal Secretary Home Sanjay Prasad has issued the promotion order. According to this, Home Secretary Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Gupta of 1999 batch and Prayagraj Police Commissioner Ramit Sharma have been promoted from IG to ADG. At the same time, five IPS officers of 2006 batch, Akash Kulhari, Dharmendra Singh, LR Kumar, Abdul Hameed and Shalabh Mathur have been made IG from DIG.
34 IPS officers promoted to DIG post
Along with this, 34 IPS officers have been promoted from SP to DIG. These include Rohan P. Kanay of the year 2009 batch, Vaibhav Krishna of the year 2010 batch, Kalanidhi Naithani, Prabhakar Chaudhary, Sanjeev Tyagi, Poonam, Kuntal Kishore, Harish Chander, Satyarth Anirudh Pankaj, Rathore Kirit Kumar Haribhai, Shiv Hari Meena, Shailesh Kumar Yadav, Rahul Raj, Shafiq Ahmed, Radhey Shyam, Kalpana Saxena, Sureshwar, Ramji Singh Yadav, Sanjay Singh, Ram Kishun, Rajkamal Yadav, Rakesh Pushkar, Manoj Kumar Sonkar, Kuldeep Narayan, Maniram Singh, Kiran Yadav, Pramod Kumar Tiwari, Shahab Rashid Khan. , S. Anand, Rajiv Narayan Mishra, Sunil Kumar Singh along with Ashok Kumar IV, Pradeep Gupta and Dr. Omprakash Singh.
These officers got selection grade
Rohan P. Kanay of 2009 batch, Sunil Kumar Singh of 2010 batch, Shailesh Kumar Pandey of 2011 batch, Ajay Kumar, Abhishek Singh, Devranjan Verma, Rajesh S., Hemant Kutiyal, Shalini, Swapnil Mamgai, D. Pradeep in UP Police. Kumar, Arun Kumar Srivastava, Suryakant Tripathi, Bikash Kumar Vaidya, Rajesh Kumar Saxena, Dr. Arvind Chaturvedi, Sunita Singh, Rajesh Kumar Singh, Rakesh Kumar Pandey, Sudha Singh, Mohd. Nejam Hasan, Dinesh Singh, Ram Yagya, Tej Swaroop Singh, Subhash Chandra Shakya along with Alok Priyadarshi, Ashtabhuja Prasad Singh, Kamala Prasad Yadav, Ram Badan Singh, Ruchita Chaudhary, Hydesh Kumar, Avadhesh Kumar Vijeta and Ramakant Prasad are included.