The transfer orders of Commissioner level have come about soon after the chairman of the Central Board of Excise and Customs, SD Mohile taking over on August 17. Mohile was in Mumbai last week also.

The most important change is that of Chief Commissioner, Customs, Mumbai. BK Bakshi has been transferred as DG Service Tax, while GS Tampi who was transferred to that post in November last year is back as Chief Commissioner, Mumbai.

Tampi was transferred rather unceremoniously in circumstances that became controversial because of press reports on rampant corruption in the Customs department. He had taken over as chief commissioner in May last year.

RC Verma, Commissioner Central Excise (CCE) Mumbai-I, is now posted as ADG, Anti-Evasion, Mumbai. SPS Pundir, Customs Commissioner, Calcutta will takehis post.

SS Bedi, CCE IV is now CC, Nhava Sheva. SS Sekhon, CCE Pune II, is now ADG, Inspection Customs and Central Excise. Moheb Ali, Commissioner, Imports, now goes as ADG, National Academy of Customs, Excise and Narcotics (NACEN). ZB Nagarkar, ADG, NACEN is now CCE (Appeals), Mumbai.

Dr GK Pillai, ADG, DGICCE, is now CCE (Appeals) Mumbai, Chitra Saha CCE (A) is now posted as CCE (Adjudication), Mumbai. PC Jha, ADG, Anti-Evasion, is now Customs Commissioner, Airport. YG Parande, present CC, Airport, will take over as Customs Commissioner, Imports.

Ramesh Ramachandran, Commissioner, Nhava Sheva will take over as CCE IV, Mumbai.

SD Khare, CCE (A), Mumbai will now take over as ADG, Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, Mumbai. V Sridhar, whom he replaces, will be CCE Appeals, Mumbai.

While orders of the Customs and Excise Commissioners were issued today, orders of Income Tax Commissioners were released at the weekend. For Mumbai, the only and most significant new posting is that of RS Pathania, DGInvestigation, Ahmedabad, as Chief Commissioner III, Mumbai. Pathania was transferred last year in wake of the controversy generated on the visit of Bollywood actress Karisma Kapoor to his residence in Hyderabad Estate. Express Newsline had exposed the `hush-hush' meeting by publishing a photograph of Karisma arriving at the building one Friday evening with her mother.

Pathania will be replaced in Ahmedabad by CM Betgiri, CC, Cochin.

The transfer orders of Chief Commissioners and CITs were in abeyance for quite some time.

CV Padmanabhan, CC III, Mumbai, will now go as CC, Hyderabad.

Raj Narain, DG Investigation, Delhi will take over as CC-I Delhi, while SC Saxena, DG Administration will take over as CC-II, Delhi. OP Srivastav, CC-I Delhi, will take over as DG Administration.

JS Ahluwalia, CIT Agra is now posted in Patna as chief commissioner.