Accordingly Andhra Pradesh's Chief Minister-elect YS jagan Mohan Reddy is likely to pick Stephen Ravindra, a 1999-batch IPS officer presently working in Telangana, to be the state's Intelligence Chief. Meanwhile even as Stephen's name was doing the rounds as one of the possible candidates for the post, the top cop met jagan at his Tadepalli residence in Amaravati on Monday, triggering further speculation.
Furthermore Stephen also served as the Chief Security Officer (CSO) for jagan's father and former AP CM YS Rajasekhar Reddy. Reportedly the EC later also shunted out Andhra Pradesh Chief Secretary Anil Chandra Punetha for allegedly defying its order to transfer three top police officials including Venkateswara Rao.
Reports added jagan made a request to his Telangana counterpart K Chandrasekhar Rao during their meeting earlier this week, who willingly agreed to relieve the IPS officer and the Centre will now need to clear the inter-state deputation. Moreover Andhra Director General of Police (DGP) R P Thakur is said to be on his way out and former Vijayawada Commissioner Gautam Sawang is reportedly going to be picked to head the state's police force who visited jagan at his residence on the day of the results on May 23.
