SRINAGAR: High profile IPS officer Basanth Kumar Rath was Tuesday removed as the inspector general of police (traffic) and attached to the office of Commandant General, Home Guards, officials said.
Rath was replaced by Alok Kumar, who was earlier posted as IGP security, the officials said.
Kumar, an IPS officer of 1997 batch, was instrumental in unearthing the petrol scam in the Army in Ladakh during his posting as SSP Leh in the early 2000s. (AGENCIES)
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