The Chhattisgarh Government has issued fresh postings to eight Indian Police Service (IPS) officers and deployed them on the anti-Maoist operations duty in the State, officials said on Wednesday (June 11, 2025).
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The development comes after Akash Girepunje, the Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP-Konta division) in Sukma district, lost his life in a Maoist-planted IED blast on Monday (June 9).
All the eight transferred IPS officers, belonging to the 2021 batch, were posted as City Superintendents of Police (CSP) in different districts, a government official said, adding the State Home Department issued the transfer order on Tuesday (June 10).
As per the order, Surguja CSP Rohit Kumar Shah has been posted as Additional Superintendent of Police (anti-Maoist operations) in Sukma district, and CSP Jagdalpur (Bastar district) Udit Pushkar as ASP (anti-Maoist operations) in Dantewada district.
