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Day after separatist Mohammad Ashraf Sehrai’s demise, J&Ok Prisons DG shifted

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The Jammu and Kashmir administration Thursday carried out a reshuffle on the high rung of police administration, shifting 9 senior IPS officers together with Director-General of Prisons V Ok Singh who was appointed Commandant General of the Home Guards, Civil Defence and the State Disaster Response Force.
The submit of Commandant General of HG/CD/SDRF is said equal in rank and standing to that of DG until the time it’s held by V Ok Singh, learn an order issued by the Home Department.
Though the order indicated that the reshuffle was carried due to the promotion of a number of cops to the grade of DG and ADG, Singh’s shifting from his previous submit got here a day after 77-year-old Mohammad Ashraf Sehrai, a outstanding Hurriyat chief and chairman of Tehreek-e-Hurriyat, died in detention in Jammu.
The separatist Kashmiri chief was detained beneath the Public Safety Act and he was shifted to Jammu hospital from Udhampur jail on Tuesday night. According to authorities officers, he examined optimistic for Covid-19 posthumously.

His demise was broadly condoled by each mainstream and separatist politicians throughout the UT, who referred to as him an sincere politician.
Sehrai’s son Mujahid Sehrai had accused the administration of delaying his remedy. Mujahid mentioned: “During our phone calls in the past, he had said that was not getting proper treatment.”