Major reshuffle of IPS officers in Odisha

A large number of IPS officers have been transferred and posted to different places in Odisha. Accordingly, Manoj Kumar Chabra has been appointed as ADGP State Armed Police (SAP) while B Radhika was shifted to State Police Headquarters and Arun Kumar Sarangi is transferred as Director, Biju Patnaik State Police Academy. Similarly, Susanta Kumar Nath has been given promotion to ADGP Rank and posted as Director State Forensic Science Laboratory (SFSL); Vinayatosh Mishra on promotion to ADGP Rank has been posted as ADGP Modernization; R P Koche was given in situ promotion as ADGP Operation; Radha Krishan Sharma as Additional Director Intelligence; Padmakar S Ranpise as IGP Personnel in State Police Headquarters; Arun Bothra as IGP CID CB; Sanjay Kumar Singh as Additional Commissioner of Police in Twin City; Diptesh Kumar Pattnayak as DIG SC & ST Cell in HRPC; Ghanshyam Upadhyay as IGP North Central Range, Talcher; Yatindra Koyal as IGP Vigilance; Amitendra Nath Sinha as DIG Eastern Range, Balasore; Nikhil Kumar Kanodia as DIG Economic Offence wing (EOW) in CID CB; Ashish Kumar Singh on promotion to DIG Rank as DIGP Southern Range, Berhampur; Satyabrat Bhoi on promotion to DIG rank as DIGP Northern Range, Sambalpur; Jai Narayan Pankaj as SP from Bargarh; Anirudh Kumar Singh as Commandant Special Operation Group (SOG); Anup Kumar Sahoo as Mr.Bhoi has been shifted to Sambalpur; Awinash Kumar as SP Mayurbhanj; Niti Sekhar as SP CID CB; Brijesh Kumar Rai as SP Ganjam; Mitrabhanu Mohapatra as SP Angul; Pinak Mishra as SP Berhampur; Jugal Kishore Banoth as SP Balasore; Buttula Gangadhar as SP Bhadrakh; Anupama James as SP Deogarh; Mukesh Kumar Bhamoo as SP Bargarh; Saumya Mishra as SP Sundargarh; Vivekananda Sharma as SP Nawarangpur; Prateek Singh as SP Kandhamal; Santosh Kumar Naik as SP Dhenakanal: Kartikeswar Panigrahi as SP Special Branch; B K Panigrahi as AIG State Police Headquarters and Pranadhan Mahapatra was posted as DCP Headquarters in Twin City Police.