Guwahati: Two IPS officers, who were part of the SIT probing the hotel shooting case, have been transferred to Assam Police battalions as part of a reshuffle involving seven senior police officers. The order was issued on Saturday.DCP (central) Shambhavi Mishra has been appointed commandant of the 6th Assam Police Battalion (APBn) at Kathal in Cachar, while additional DCP (central) Viku L Achumi has been posted as second-in-command of the 28th APBn at Howly in Barpeta district.Mishra and Achumi were part of the six-member SIT headed by Guwahati joint police commissioner Ankur Jain. The team was formed to investigate the shooting at Hotel Bilas Inn in Guwahati’s Bora Service area, in which five people, including four members of the hotel owner’s family, were killed.As part of the reshuffle, APS officer Mrinal Deka, principal of the Lachit Barphukan Police Academy in Dergaon, Golaghat, has been appointed DCP (central), replacing Mishra. Mishra will succeed APS officer Pradip Saikia as commandant of the 6th APBn. Saikia has been transferred and posted as assistant inspector general of police (administration), Assam, in Guwahati.APS officer Prithwiraj Rajkhowa, co-district superintendent of police in Lakhipur, Cachar, has been appointed additional DCP (central) in place of Achumi.The order also includes changes in the Guwahati Police Commissionerate and Assam Police battalions.APS officer Partha Pratim Duwarah, who was serving as assistant commissioner of police (ACP), Panbazar, has been transferred and posted as assistant commandant of the 1st APBn at Ligiripukhuri in Sivasagar, against an existing vacancy.APS officer Rishav Phukan, deputy superintendent of police with the 1st Commando Battalion at Mandakata, who was attached to the Guwahati Police Commissionerate, will replace Duwarah as ACP, Panbazar.All transfers and postings have been ordered with immediate effect, the home department notification said.
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