Sajjanar removed after 14 months, Mahesh Muralidhar Bhagwat is new Police Commissioner of Hyderabad

IPS officer VC Sajjanar has been transferred just 14 months after taking charge as Hyderabad Police Commissioner.  Mahesh Muralidhar Bhagwat has been appointed as Police Commissioner of Hyderabad . This is considered an important  transfer order issued by the Telangana government on Thursday for 21 officers of  the Indian Police Service. Sajjanar has been appointed Director General of Fire, Disaster Response, Emergency, and Civil Defence of Telangana State. Although his tenure , as an IPS,  is until October 2028. The reasons for his transfer were not immediately known.

Since the Congress government came to power in Telangana in December 2023, Hyderabad has seen four police commissioners. Sandeep Shandilya, who was appointed Commissioner in October 2023, was removed from the post of Hyderabad Commissioner in December 2023, just three months later. Although his retirement was due in May 2024, his appointment was made on the orders of the Central Election Commission before the state assembly elections. Following his removal as Hyderabad Police Commissioner, Shandilya was appointed Director of the Telangana State Anti-Narcotics Bureau. He was also granted a one-year extension in this position.

Following the removal of Sandeep Shandilya, IPS K. Srinivasa Reddy was appointed as the Hyderabad Police Commissioner in December 2023, but his tenure also lasted barely 10 months. In September 2024, the post of Hyderabad Commissioner was handed over to IPS C.V. Anand. Mr. Anand, a 1990 batch IPS officer, served as the Commissioner of Hyderabad for just one year. He is currently the Director General of Police (DGP) of Telangana.