The Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi government on Monday appointed 1986-batch IPS officer Sanjay Pandey as the Mumbai commissioner of police (CP), just a few months ahead of his retirement from the force. His predecessor Hemant Nagrale, a 1987-batch IPS officer, was transferred to the Maharashtra State Security Corporation as the managing director.

Pandey was relieved from the additional charge as the Maharashtra director general of police (DGP), after the Bombay High Court pulled up the state government for favouring him. The government on February 18 transferred him to the Maharashtra State Security Corporation. According to sources, he was unhappy with the transfer. On Monday, he was transferred to the Mumbai CP office. He is set to retire from the police force in June.