{
  "id": 4327928,
  "title": "MP IPS Reshuffle: Anshuman Yadav To Take Over As ADG Intelligence, Chanchal Shekhar Gets Sports",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/30/mp-ips-reshuffle-anshuman-yadav-to-take-over-as-adg-intelligence",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-30T02:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Press Journal",
    "slug": "free-press-journal",
    "url": "https://www.freepressjournal.in/bhopal/mp-ips-reshuffle-anshuman-yadav-to-take-over-as-adg-intelligence-chanchal-shekhar-gets-sports"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "In Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, IPS officer Anshuman Yadav will assume the role of additional director general (ADG) of intelligence, taking charge of cyber intelligence from A Sai Manohar, who is set to retire on August 31. Chanchal Shekhar, a 1995-batch IPS officer, has been appointed as director of sports. Alongside, ADG narcotics and STF D Sreenivasa Verma have been allocated the State Crime Records Bureau and additional responsibilities in the State Industrial Security Force (SISF). Additionally, special director-general Anil Kumar has been assigned women's safety duties, along with the ADG of Adim Jati Kalyan (AJAK). Anshuman Yadav will become the fourth ADG (intelligence) during the tenure of the Mohan Yadav-led government, following Jaideep Prasad, Yogesh Deshkukh, and A Sai Manohar. The department is responsible for gathering information on law and order, potential threats, organizations, agitations, and communal tensions, as well as providing inputs for VVIP meetings and playing a role in preventing terrorism and organized crimes. Sai Manohar, who has served as ADG (Intelligence) for one and a half years, may take up the role of adviser to Chief Minister Mohan Yadav upon his retirement.",
  "summary": "Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): A 1998-batch IPS officer, Anshuman Yadav, will be the new additional director general (ADG) of intelligence. Yadav holds additional charge of ADG (cyber). As ADG (intelligence), A Sai Manohar, who retires on Aug 31, will take his place. In place of Yadav, the government appointed 1995-batch IPS officer Chanchal Shekhar as director (sports). ADG (narcotics) and STF D…",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}