Election Commission revokes suspension of Anjani Kumar
The poll panel had suspended him for violating the Model of Conduct by Revanth Reddy, who was the Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) president then.
Updated On - 12 December 2023, 12:48 PM
Hyderabad: The Election Commission of India has revoked the suspension of former DGP Telangana Anjani Kumar.
On December 3, the ECI had directed the State government to place Anjani Kumar under suspension for violating the Model Code of Conduct after he went and met TPCC Chief A Revanth Reddy while the counting of votes was underway.
Anjani Kumar had stated that he had gone to meet Revanth Reddy to discuss the arrangements for swearing in ceremony.
However, the ECI took a serious note of it and directed the State government to place the senior IPS officer under suspension and issued notices to two other officers of Additional DGP ranks, Mahesh Muralidhar Bhagwat and Sanjay Jain. Ravi Gupta, DG ACB was appointed the Telangana DGP (HoPF).