Chandigarh, Jan. 3 -- The Punjab government has promoted 12 IPS officers to the rank of deputy inspector general (DIG) of police and three to the rank of IG. The promotions were cleared on Friday, elevating the officers to level 13-A of the pay matrix. The officers promoted to the rank of DIGs include Snehdeep Sharma, Sandeep Goel and Jasdev Singh Sidhu of 2011 batch, and Dhruv Dahiya, Sandeep Kumar Garg, Gulneet Singh Khurana, Akhil Chaudhary and Amneet Kondal from the 2012 batch. Besides, Gurpreet Singh, Rupinder Singh, Sarabjit Singh and Harpreet Singh Jaggi (2012 batch) have also been promoted.

Those promoted to the rank of IGs are Jagdale Nilambari Vijay, Rahul S, Bikram Pal Singh Bhatty and Rajpal Singh Sandhu. They are from the 20...