The deputy commissioner and superintendent of police of Gurgaon, which had recently witnessed violent clashes between workers of the Honda Motors and Scooters India and the police, were removed from their posts on Wednesday.

DC Sudhir Rajpal has been replaced by Panipat DC R P Bhardwaj and SP Yoginder Singh Nehra has been replaced by Jhajjar SP Hanif Qureshi, an official spokesman said today. No reason was cited for the removal of the two, against whom action had been sought by various political parties.

Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda had said last week that the two officials would go on leave the moment a judicial probe into the violence began. The spokesman said the posting orders for Rajpal and Nehra 'would be issued later on'.