Mahesh Muralidhar Bhagwat takes charge as the fourth Hyderabad police chief

Senior official <b>Mahesh Muralidhar Bhagwat</b> has been appointed as the new Hyderabad Police Commissioner following a major bureaucratic reshuffle by the state government. He takes over the charge after the transfer of previous commissioner VC Sajjanar, who served for nearly 14 months and has now been posted as Director General of Telangana Fire, Disaster Response, Emergency and Civil Defence. According to official reports, the administration transferred and assigned new postings to 21 IPS officers. Since the current government came to power, multiple IPS officers have served in the top police commissioner role. The specific reasons behind the sudden administrative transfers were not immediately disclosed by authorities.