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VIJAYAWADA: Locking horns with the Election Commission, the TDP government in Andhra Pradesh on Wednesday cancelled the transfer of intelligence DG A B Venkateshwar Rao. Intelligence DG does not come under the EC purview, but he too is transferred,” Naidu said at a public meeting.Advocate general Dammalapati Srinivas said the DG (intelligence) was not a designated officer under Section 28A of the Representation of People Act, 1951. The state government had initially followed the EC’s order and transferred the cops on Tuesday. The same was intimated in reply to the EC’s March 15 letter in which it had asked chief secretaries of all states to send the list of designated officers, he argued. “There is not even a single complaint or criticism against Kadapa SP Rahul Dev Sharma who is heading the probe into Vivekananda murder and he gets transferred at a crucial time of the investigation..