Only a day after Reddy was posted out on November 9, the department ordered that these transfers be kept in abeyance. More than 100 police personnel were transferred between November 1 and 9. While most of those transferred were constables and head constables, these also included about 25 non-gazetted officers. Reddy was not available for comment.

The transfer orders were issued by Senior Superintendent of Police (Headquarters) Ajay Kashyap on the instructions of the IGP while the latter was away to Hyderabad on an official tour. Singh, who rejoined office today, said the orders will be changed as Reddy issued them "out of his jurisdiction".

It may be recalled that about a month ago, the IGP had announced a major shift in the transfer policy of police personnel. Earlier, the UT SSP was authorised to make all kinds of transfers, but as per the fresh policy he can order postings only from one police station to the other. The SSP headquarters has been authorised to issue inter-unit transfers.

Reddy had issued about 19 transfers from one police station to another which have also been stayed. Singh said: "Some of these are not timely. There has to be some rationale in any act and in some of these postings it was missing. These have not been cancelled but we are looking into them and only those postings which will be found feasible will be retained."