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  Satish Mathur appointed as state ACB chief

Satish Mathur appointed as state ACB chief

AGE CORRESPONDENT
Published : Apr 26, 2016, 4:52 am IST
Updated : Apr 26, 2016, 4:52 am IST

In new transfers announced for the Maharastra police, Satish Mathur has been appointed as the new chief of the Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) and Sanjav Barve will head the state intelligence department

In new transfers announced for the Maharastra police, Satish Mathur has been appointed as the new chief of the Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) and Sanjav Barve will head the state intelligence department (SID).

Mr Mathur, a director-general (DG) rank officer was till now the managing director of the Maharashtra Police Housing and Welfare Corporation takes over the position after Vijay Kamble retired from the police service in February. Taking charge at the Worli office on Monday, he informed the media that he would continue the good work done by his predecessors.

“We will review the cases under investigation and bring each one to its logical conclusion,” Mr Mathur said. The 1981-batch officer has over two years of service left before his retirement is known for his detection and investigation of the murder of commander-in-chief of the Army, General Arun Kumar Vaidya who was gunned down on August 10, 1986, at Pune.

The ACB is investigating many high profile cases, some of them against former ministers, such as the irrigation scam, Maharashtra Sadan scam and the Kalina land deal. As the new director general of police (ACB), Mr Mathur will also face the challenge of improving the poor conviction rate and few cases registered in the city.

He had also previously been the commissioner of police for Pune city and worked as deputy commissioner of police, ACB in Pune and as a superintendent of police, CBI ACB where he was posted on deputation.

Meanwhile, Mr Barve, a 1987 batch IPS officer, who held the post of additional director general for the ACB , has been transferred and is now the commissioner of the state intelligence department. It has been alleged that the officer was involved in the Adarsh housing society scam during his tenure as the joint commissioner of police (traffic), but came out clean in the ACB investigation.