Gadchiroli cops’ transfer orders in a week: HM

NAGPUR: Former state home minister late RR Patil’s son Rohit is learnt to have taken up the issue of pending transfers of 146 officers at Maoist-affected Gadchiroli district. RR Patil was the guardian minister of the district and is still remembered fondly by the locals for his contribution.
Hassled after their transfer was deferred for the sixth time, the officers now have a respite in sight with the present state home minister Anil Deshmukh assuring to get it done within a week.
“The process has been started. We can expect to get the issue sorted within a week,” he told TOI. “The officers of the ranks of IAS and IPS were being reshuffled statewide for which the process was deferred but has now been expedited,” said Deshmukh.
Sources stated some officers had requested Rohit, whose mother Sumantai is now MLA from Sangli, to take up the issue. Rohit is learnt to have sought the intervention of Deshmukh who immediately responded positively.
In all, 146 officers of Gadchiroli and another 24 from Gondia, also a Maoist-affected districts in eastern Vidarbha, had taken to social media to protest their transfer being deferred for six times even after completing three years in trouble torn areas.
One officer had mentioned in the social media about the ‘tareekh pe tareekh’ (date after date) being given to them after the transfer dates were shifted from July 31 to August 5, August 15, September 5, September 30, October 15 and now to October 30. The present officers, posted in Gadchiroli, are learnt to be serving here since August 2017.
Around a dozen inspectors have been posted for the second time in the district. After having served in the difficult terrain as sub-inspectors, they were sent back on being promoted. One of the inspectors is working there for four years.