The Madhya Pradesh government transferred 23 IPS officers on Monday evening. The shake-up resulted in 12 districts getting new SPs including the three districts of Gwalior-Chambal region which witnessed caste violence on April 2, resulting in the loss of seven lives. District police chiefs of all three caste-violence districts - Gwalior, Bhind and Morena - have been changed. While the 2005 batch SP Gwalior Dr Ashish was shifted as AIG to the state police headquarters in Bhopal, the Morena SP 2011 batch IPS officer Aditya Pratap Singh too was shifted to the state PHQ as Commandant of the anti-Naxal Hawk Force. The SP Bhind Prashant Khare (2010 batch IPS) was transferred as SP of Seoni district. Presently posted as SP Khandwa, 2009 batch IPS officer Navneet Bhaseen has been appointed the new SP Gwalior, while the SP of Naxal-affected Balaghat district Amit Sanghi (2010 batch IPS) was appointed the new SP of Morena district. A 2009 batch IPS officer, Rudolf Alvares, will be the new SP of Bhind district. At least nine other districts, including Chhattarpur, Rewa, Sidhi, Khandwa, Sehore, Narsinghpur, Shahdol, Balaghat and Seoni too got new district police chiefs. Another significant change is the appointment of Hawk Force (MP Police's anti-Naxal force) Commandant Jaidevan A (2008 batch) as the new SP of Naxal-affected Balaghat district.