In a clash for supremacy between senior police officers and bureaucrats, a district superintendent of police (SP) has been transferred on the charges of disrespecting an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer. Bhandara SP Dilip Zalke, who had an angry spat in his office with district collector Dheeraj Kumar on August 27 this year, was given the marching orders on Thursday.

He will move out to Washim district as SP without serving a full term in Bhandara, where he had joined in May this year. His transfer was clubbed with the reshuffling of four other officers of the SP rank. Zalke’s transfer did not go down well with senior police officials, who demanded that the district collector should also be transferred with immediate effect because he too had insulted Zalke in public.