Shillong, July 29 : The Meghalaya government has requested Dispur to spare a senior police official to replace the state director-general of police, Anil Pradhan.
The move comes in the wake of the demand by the state’s NGOs to remove Pradhan for messing up the Shillong jailbreak inquiry.
An official source today said the state government had already written to the Assam government to propose names from among the senior police officials of the Assam-Meghalaya cadre posted in Assam for the DGP’s post.
With the Assam government today clearing the name of Sankar Barua, an IAS officer of the 1974 batch, as the next DGP of Assam, chances are that senior Assam police official Sharda Prasad from the 1973 batch will be appointed as the new DGP of Meghalaya.