LUCKNOW, April 23 -- Seven district police chiefs were among 15 Indian Police Service (IPS) officers transferred by the Uttar Pradesh government in a late-night reshuffle on Tuesday, senior officials said here on Wednesday. The list also included two senior IPS officers of deputy inspector general (DIG) rank and district police chiefs of Jhansi, Mahoba, Kanpur Dehat, Banda, Fatehgarh, Pilibhit, and Sitapur.

Fatehgarh superintendent of police (SP) Alok Priyadarshi was shifted to Ghaziabad as the additional police commissioner (law and order) after being promoted to the DIG rank. He was replaced by 2017-batch IPS officer Aarti Singh.

Jhansi SP Sudha Singh, who was also promoted, was appointed as the DIG (Railway, Lucknow), while Kanpur De...