Gandhinagar: The state government has formed a committee to inquire into the reasons of the incident of chemical misuse in Botad, Barwala and and Dhandhuka talukas. Total 28 persons in rural Botad and Ahmedabad district have been dead after consuming stolen Methyl Alcohol chemical - which was only for industrial use - mixed with water. The committee consists of three persons including a chairperson and two members. The committee is required to submit a detailed report within 3 days to th...Read More

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has dismissed a plea of former IPS officer Kuldeep Sharma seeking termination of a departmental probe initiated against him. Instead the apex court has directed the state government to complete the departmental inquiry against Kuldeep Sharma at the earliest and to allow him the opportunity to raise his objections to the findings before a concerned committee. The Supreme Court had questioned Sharma for challenging the departmental inquiry after 7 years. Accordin...Read More

Gandhinagar: Gujarat Police chief Ashish Bhatia who was going to retire from the Indian Police Service (IPS) on May 31st this year, has been in a special case given 8 months extension. He will continue to serve as State police chief for 8 more months beyond 31st May 2022. The decision has been taken by the union cabinet's appointment committee. Bhatia's extension in service was proposed by the union Home ministry. Bhatia was appointed as DGP of Gujarat on 31st July, 2020 succeeding Shivanand Jha...Read More

Rajkot: Year 1995 batch officer of Indian Police Service (IPS), Raju Bhargav has been appointed as new Police Commissioner of Rajkot city. August 1966 born Raju Bhargava hails from Rajasthan. He has completed B.Sc(Hone.), M.A.(Eco), MBA. Bhargav was was as the Additional Director General of Police (Armed Units) at Gandhinagar. He was also in additional charge of ADGP( Technical Services & SCRB). The post of the Commissioner of Police in Rajkot was vacant after punishment transfer of former Commi...Read More

Gandhinagar: The Department of Home Affairs has issued an order as per which the Gujarat DGP will meet people personally on the third Thursday of every month and resolve their difficulties. People who wish to meet the DGP in person will have to submit an application in the morning and the meeting would happen in the afternoon. The programme called Swagat Plus will provide people who are unable to get the cooperation from top police officers at the local level an opportunity to put forward the...Read More

Gandhinagar: The Government of Gujarat has announced transfers/promotions of 77 IPS (Indian Police Service) officers in the State. While 20 IPS officers are promoted, 57 are transferred. Transfers mainly cover SP level officers.   Read More

Gandhinagar: The Government of Gujarat has extended the term of DGP Ashish Bhatia for two more months. With this he will now continue to serve on the post of State police chief (DGP) for two more months. The year 1985 batch IPS officer Ashish Bhatia was born on 10 - 5 - 1962. With two-month extension to Bhatia, the path of appointing Sanjay Srivastava as new DGP will be clear, as IPS TS Bist (30 - 6 - 1962 born), senior to Srivastava and number one in hierarchy after DGP Ashish Bhatia will...Read More

Gandhinagar: The Government of Gujarat has finally transferred Rajkot Police Commissioner Manoj Agarwal to the post of Principal, State Reserve Police (SRP) Training Centre relieving BR Pandor, IPS from additional charge with immediate effect. It's worth noting that in the past too, number of police officials have been transferred SRP training Centre and Police training school in Junagadh as what is in common term known as "punishment posting." Rajkot BJP MLA Govind Patel and Rajya Sabha MP R...Read More

Gandhinagar: DGP (training) in Gujarat Police, IPS Vikas Sahay today took the statement of Rajkot Police Commissioner Manoj Agrawal after questioning him for over 3 hours. Sahay has been appointed by the State government to probe into the graft allegations against Agrawal. Sahay on Tuesday took statements of 4 persons including the complainant. The process had taken 8 hours and ended at 11 pm. The statements of Rajkot crime-branch PI Viral Gadhvi and PSI Sakhra were taken yesterday. DeshGujara...Read More