Madhya Pradesh Reshuffles Responsibilities of Four IPS Officers

The Madhya Pradesh government has issued orders reshuffling the responsibilities of four Indian Police Service officers, led by Chandra Shekhar, a 1995-batch Additional Director General of Police, who has been appointed Director, Sports and Youth Welfare Department.

The reshuffle touches senior ADG-level assignments that combine departmental charges with additional responsibilities in intelligence, narcotics enforcement and the state's specialised police wings, reflecting how Madhya Pradesh distributes its most senior IPS officers across both mainstream policing and welfare-linked departments, a pattern the state has followed in several previous reshuffles at this seniority level.

Anshuman Yadav, a 1998-batch officer who previously held the Sports and Youth Welfare Department charge that Chandra Shekhar now takes over, has been given additional charge as Additional Director General of Police, Intelligence, alongside a role at Police Headquarters, Bhopal, moving him from a welfare department back into core policing and intelligence work.

Anil Kumar, a 1993-batch officer and the senior-most among the four in terms of batch year, has been assigned additional charge as Special Director General of Police at the Anti-Corruption Bureau's AJAK wing, based at Police Headquarters, Bhopal, adding an anti-corruption enforcement role to his existing responsibilities.

D. Srinivasa Varma, a 1997-batch officer, has been given additional charge as Additional Director General of Police for Narcotics and AJAK at Police Headquarters, Bhopal, placing him alongside Kumar in the anti-corruption and narcotics enforcement structure, a pairing that suggests the state is consolidating senior oversight of these two enforcement wings.

The reshuffle keeps all four officers at the ADG level within Madhya Pradesh's police hierarchy while redistributing their specific departmental and enforcement-wing charges, a common approach the state uses to fill gaps created by retirements or transfers at the senior-most ranks without disturbing the overall seniority structure.

The order, issued by the state home department, takes effect with immediate charge handover among the four officers involved.