Vijayawada: The ECI appointed the senior IPS officer Kumar Vishwajeet on Thursday as Intelligence Chief of Andhra Pradesh as successor of P Sitaramanjaneyulu, now Vishwajeet working as ADG (Railways).

ACB Director PHD Ramakrishna has been appointed as Vijayawada Police Commissioner in place of his predecessor Kanthi Rana Tata who was transferred on Wednesday.

The order further instructed the two officers to take charge and send the compliance report to the ECI by Thursday 11 am. ECI on Tuesday asked Chief Secretary KS Jawahar Reddy to submit a panel of three officers along with their APAR grading for the last five years and Vigilance Clearance, to replace the officers who have been transferred.

Based on the names sent by the Chief Secretary, the ECI selected the two and instructed the officials concerned to issue further orders pertaining to their appointment.

Coincidentally, the 1994 IPS batch officer, Kumar Vishwajeet was appointed as ADG Intelligence by the ECI in 2019 general elections, replacing the serving AB Venkateswara Rao of 1989 batch IPS.