VADODARA, Dec 1: Eight police inspectors, including four of police stations, have been transferred with immediate effect. Though Commissioner of Police Kuldip Sharma said that transfers were ``routine'' and effected on ``purely administrative grounds and in the interest of the department'', sources in political circles, however, said that Fatehgunj PI S N Sharma was transferred under VHP pressure.Sharma had issued a statement amounting to indictment of Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Bajrang Dal activists who had allegedly assaulted delegates of a Christian convention in a school in Fatehgunj recently.
Sharma has been posted as in-charge of the Vadodara Airport Security in place of S G Chaudhary who has been shifted to Navapura police station. PI of Navapura police station G R Vaghela has been transferred to Modus Operandi Branch in place of D N Mishra who goes to Fatehgunj police station.
While City Police Station PI R D Gamit has been transferred to Traffic Police branch, PI B D Tandel from Bhavnagar, who was formerly with Anti-Terrorist Squad, has been posted at the City Police Station. PI N M Parmar of Chhani police station has been posted in the Special Branch in place of PI N A Rathod who has been transferred to Amreli district. PI J G Chavda of the Arms Licence Branch has been appointed as PI of Chhani police station.
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