Khan will join the BMP-5 as its commandant. Bhrigu Srinivasan, who was on Central deputation, is the new SP of Banka, while SP (Muzaffarpur) Amit Lodha will take charge from Satyendra Singh as SP (Kaimur).

Commandant, BMP-5, Ratn Sanjay is the new SP of Muzaffarpur while SP (Banka) D N Gupta will go to Katihar as superintendent of railway police.

Arvind Kumar, who was on Central deputation, has been made SP (Jamui) in place of J P N Singh who has been made the commandant, BMP-16.

Sushil Khopade, who also was on Central deputation, has been asked to join as SP (Aurangabad) replacing Sunil Kumar Sinha, who is now AIG (inspection) at the police headquarters.

DGP A R Sinha said that of the 12 IPS officers on Central deputation, nine have been released by the ministry of home affairs while the latter has expressed its inability to the rest, including Niraj Sinha, as he is currently posted in Bangladesh.

Sinha further said that of the 600 companies of CPMF demanded by the state government for deployment during election, the Centre has sent in the first instalment, 174 companies which will arrive here on Sunday.

He further said that during the past one week, the police have executed 15,300 non-bailable warrants. Now the government is tackling the problem of overflowing of jails in the state and that a proposal is being mooted to open camp jails to accommodate absconders.

During the execution of warrants, the police made a prize catch when they nabbed notorious criminal Nandkishore Singh, who is accused in 40 cases of kidnapping and murder in Bhagalpur district alone, at Sitamarhi.