Senior IPS Officer Abhay To Take Charge As Odisha DGP On Monday

New Delhi: Senior IPS officer Abhay will assume charge as Director-General of Police (DGP) of Odisha on Monday. He will take charge from Satyajit Mohanty, who is currently heading the State police as the interim DGP.

Abhay was on Friday sent back to his cadre Odisha, a Personnel Ministry order said. The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved his premature repatriation to Odisha with immediate effect, the order said.

He is at present working as Director, SardarVallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy, Hyderabad.
The Odisha government had last month named Abhay, a 1986 batch IPS officer of Odisha cadre, as the Director General of Police (DGP) in place of B K Sharma.

(With PTI inputs)