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Senior IPS serviceman V. C. Sajjanar has been appointed arsenic the caller Commissioner of Police, Hyderabad City, successful a large Telangana-wide reshuffle of IPS officers. A Government Order transferring and giving caller postings to the officers was dated September 26, 2025. He replaces C. V. Anand, who has been transferred and posted arsenic Special Chief Secretary to the Government, Home Department.
A 1996-batch serviceman of the erstwhile Andhra Pradesh cadre, aboriginal allotted to the Telangana cadre, Mr. Sajjanar has held cardinal postings crossed policing and medication during his vocation spanning astir 3 decades.
A autochthonal of Hubli, Karnataka, Mr. Sajjanar is the lad of C.B. Sajjanar and Girija Sajjanar. He holds a commerce grade from J. G. College of Commerce, Hubli, and an MBA from Karnataka University, Dharwad.
He acquired the sobriquet ‘encounter specialist’, aft helium played a cardinal relation successful respective high-profile cases, including the 2019 gunning down of 4 accused successful an alleged brushwood following the Disha rape and execution lawsuit portion helium was Commissioner of Cyberabad, and anterior to that the gunning down of 3 suspects progressive successful the 1996 acerb onslaught successful Warangal, erstwhile helium was Warangal Superintendent of Police.
He began his work arsenic Assistant Superintendent of Police successful Jangaon, Warangal district, and Pulivendla successful Cuddapah district. On promotion, helium went connected to service arsenic Superintendent of Police successful Nalgonda, Kadapa, Guntur, Warangal, and Medak, and besides headed the Crime Investigation Department’s Economic Offences Wing. He aboriginal commanded the Organisation for Countering Terrorist Operations (OCTOPUS) and the 6th Battalion, Andhra Pradesh Special Police, astatine Mangalagiri.
As Deputy Inspector General and aboriginal Inspector General, Mr. Sajjanar served successful the Intelligence Department until March 2018, earlier taking complaint arsenic Commissioner of Police, Cyberabad, a station helium held until August 2021. In September that year, he was appointed Managing Director of the Telangana State Road Transport Corporation, a presumption helium held until his latest transfer.
