Every week after the Maharashtra DGP workplace sought names of officers who match the criterion to be transferred earlier than the Meeting elections, 221 officers from Mumbai, Navi Mumbai and Mira Bhayandar Vasai Virar (MBVV) police have been transferred.
Practically 42 officers had been moved to Mumbai police instead of the officers transferred. Mumbai police had resisted the switch on the bottom that it will make it tough to keep up regulation and order within the metropolis with fewer officers.
The Election Fee, nonetheless, didn’t relent and after clarifying some situations requested them to maneuver out officers who had been in the identical posting for greater than three years.
The Indian Specific had reported final week that enormous scale transfers had been on the playing cards in Mumbai police.
The switch record issued by the state police on Wednesday confirmed almost 162 inspector rank officers from Mumbai metropolis, almost 38 inspectors from MBVV police, and almost 21 officers from Navi Mumbai police had been transferred out of their commissionerates.
Additional, the state residence division and DGP workplace are additionally within the strategy of interesting in opposition to the keep order on their switch granted to 21 cops by the Maharashtra Administrative Tribunal (MAT).
The Mumbai police had on October 4 transferred 112 officers from whom 21 officers had been granted keep.
The Mumbai police had carried out the transfers after EC pulled up Maharashtra authorities on “partial compliance” of its orders.
Additional, the EC, earlier this month, in a letter clarified that regardless of which district in Mumbai an officer was posted in, it will likely be counted of their service document in Mumbai police.
As per guidelines, anybody who has served in an govt publish in three of the previous 4 years in a district must be transferred earlier than elections in order that they don’t wield affect and tamper with the election course of.
Primarily based on the EC letter, the DGP on October 23 wrote to Mumbai, Navi Mumbai and Mira Bhayandar Vasai Virar (MBVV) in search of an inventory of officers who match this criterion and sought the record by 6 pm.
