Ravi Gupta takes charge as IG Guntur range

GUNTUR: Senior IPS officer, Ravi Gupta formally assumed charge as Inspector General of Guntur range on Wednesday. SPs J Satyanarayana (rural) and Ake Ravikrishna (urban) and other senior officials in the district were present.
The government had appointed Gupta as Guntur range IG in the recent IPS shuffle. Gupta took the reins two days ago in Hyderabad itself when the in-charge IG, KVRN Reddy visited the capital on official duty.
Ravi Gupta's appointment is seen as being significant as his predecessor Harish Kumar Gupta was virtually shunted out of the range after he faced serious allegations of bribery in transfer of circle inspectors three months ago. Harish Kumar had hurriedly affected the transfer of 44 inspectors after a TOI story that several inspectors had struck deals with a top cop to get favourable postings.
With the massive transfer of inspectors just hours before he left for a training creating ripples in the department, the DGP cancelled all the transfers. He asked the inspectors to go back and continue to work in the previous offices.