Indian Police Service officer Vandita Pandey has taken over as Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Dindigul Range. Her husband Varun Kumar has been posted DIG of Trichy where he was Superintendent of Police (SP) till now. Both are 2011 batch Tamil Nadu cadre officers and have been promoted together.
This IPS couple, who are very popular and active on social media, are among the 60 IPS officers of Tamil Nadu cadre who have been promoted or transferred by the Tamil Nadu government in a recent order.
With the implementation of this promotion and transfer order, there has been a significant change in the Greater Chennai Police (gcp) as well.
According to these orders, 4 Additional Director Generals of police (ADGP) Mahesh Kumar Agarwal, G Venkataraman, Vineet Dev Wankhede and Sanjay Mathur have been promoted to the post of Director General of Police (DGP). At the same time, Inspector General of Police (IGP) R Dinakaran and Sonal V Mishra have been promoted to the ADGP rank.
Who got transferred where:
In the wake of the Anna University campus rape incident, former Joint Commissioner of Police (JCP) Saroj Kumar Thakur has been transferred back to the post of Jt. CP (Headquarters) and posted at Police Headquarters in Greater Chennai. Tiruppur Commissioner S Lakshmi has been transferred and replaced by S Rajendran, who was working as Additional Commissioner (Traffic and Headquarters) in Avadi City Police. Jt. CP (West) P Vijayakumar has been transferred to East Zone, while Economic Offences Wing, South Zone Superintendent of Police PC Kalyan has been promoted to Deputy Inspector General (DIG) rank and appointed as Jt. CP (West).
IPS Vandita Pandey and V Varun Kumar:
V Varun Kumar of 2011 batch of Indian Police Service is a native of Tamil Nadu while his wife Vandita Pandey hails from Prayagraj (formerly Allahabad) in Uttar Pradesh. Active on social media the IPS couple has a good fan following. They have shared many impressive pictures and videos of their personal life and moments spent with family.
Beginning of the controversy:
Last August, the IPS couple also came into the news when objectionable comments were made about them on social media. Angered by this, IPS V Varun Kumar had sent a notice to Tamil Nadu political party NTK (naam tamilar katchi) leader and film actor Seeman, holding him responsible for civil and criminal defamation. In this, a claim of Rs 2 crore was made as compensation for defamation and mental torture. This 8-page notice was also posted on his handle on social media. Later, on his complaint, which was made in his personal capacity, a case was registered against three NTK activists in Trichy Cyber Police.
V Varun Kumar alleges that fake accounts were used on social media to spread false propaganda and comments about him and his family. NTK activists were majorly involved in this. On Monday, the hearing of this case was held in the court of Judicial Magistrate (IV) in Chennai where the statement of IPS V Varun Kumar was recorded. Now 7 January has been fixed for the hearing of this case.
