Chandigarh, Apr 15 (PTI) The Punjab government on Friday issued transfer and posting orders of 17 IPS and a Punjab Police Service officer.

Among the IPS officers who have been shuffled is the DIG of the newly formed Anti-Gangster Task Force, Gurpreet Singh Bhullar, who has been transferred and posted as the DIG of Rupnagar Range, replacing Arun Kumar Mittal.

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Mittal has been posted as the IGP, Crime, Bureau of Investigation at Chandigarh, a government order said.

S Boopathi, DIG, Personnel, Punjab, has been transferred and posted as DIG, Jalandhar Range.

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PPS officer Harkamalpreet Singh, Additional IG, Counter Intelligence, Punjab Police, has been transferred and posted as Commandant, 7th Battalion, Punjab Armed Police, Jalandhar, the order said.

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