Prabhakar Chaudhary, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh is in news after he was transferred Sunday night —21 times till date—within hours after he acted against a group of kanwariyas who were adamant to take out a procession through an unauthorised route in the district. Prabhakar Chaudhary was moved as the Army Commander of 32nd Battalion of the Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) in Lucknow, just four and a half months of his tenure. This was his 18th transfer in eight years.
After nearly six-hour stand-off, the police lathicharged the group of kanwariyas shouting uncivilised slogans against the police. The cops resorted to mild use of force to disperse the aggressive group. Five were detained and a case was registered.
Prabhakar Chaudhary, an IPS officer of the 2010 batch, hails from Ambedkar Nagar district, Uttar Pradesh. 1984 born Prabhakar Chaudhary is B.SC, LL.B. He cracked the civil services exam in his first attempt and secured his home cadre.
Chaudhary started his career as a trainee Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) in Noida. He has served the UP Police across the state, including in Deoria, Bijnor, Ballia, Bulandshahr, Kanpur Dehat, Varanasi, Moradabad, Meerut, and Agra. When Chaudhary was transferred from Deoria to Kanpur Dehat in 2016, he chose to travel by bus instead of a government vehicle, carrying only a bag on his back, reported Free Press Journal.
In Kanpur Dehat, he preferred using tempo to reach his office, reported India Today. While monitoring a rescue operation in Kanpur Dehat, he used his own car to ferry injured people to the hospital, the report added. In 2017, he was transferred Mathura.
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