India, June 12 -- The state government has initiated a probe into allegations that IPS officer and inspector-general of prisons Jalinder Supekar made changes in the transfer orders of Group A and Group B officers of the jails department even after they were cleared by CM and home minister Devendra Fadnavis. According to information, the state jails department has asked the home department to conduct a probe into this act of Supekar.

Supekar was also in another controversy recently when he was accused of attempting to protect his nephew Shashank and his family in the Vaishnavi Hagawane dowry harassment-suicide case. Vaishnavi, the wife of Shashank and daughter-in-law of expelled NCP leader Rajendra Hagawane, died by suicide on May 16 in h...