Jammu and Kashmir home secretary Suresh Kumar was on Sunday transferred, days after the controversy over the release of hardline separatist leader Massarat Aalam.
Jammu and Kashmir home secretary Suresh Kumar was on Sunday transferred, days after the controversy over the release of hardline separatist leader Massarat Aalam.
Mr Kumar, a 1986 batch IAS officer of J&K cadre, has been transferred to a much less important post of director-general of J&K Institute of Management.
The Mufti Muhammad Sayeed government’s decision to release Aalam, who faces 27 cases, including murder, sedition and conspiracy, had kicked up a political storm bringing strains in the PDP-BJP alliance in the state and Congress slamming the state government.
Mr Kumar’s transfer was announced along with shuffling and postings of 56 other officers after a meeting of the Cabinet, chaired by Mr Sayeed, an official spokesperson said.
The government also decided appointing people having Jammu and Kashmir as their domicile at key posts which includes inspector-generals of police of both the zones as well as the divisional commissioners.
B. Srinivas, a 1990-IPS officer of J&K cadre, who held the crucial CID department of the state, was moved as inspector-general of Home Guards. He has been replaced by Abdul Gani Mir, a 1994 batch IPS officer who migrated to the state cadre from Jharkhand.
