Charanjit Singh Channi Sarkar selected Bhawra, a 1987 batch officer, from a panel of three officers selected by the Union Public Service Commission.
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- Senior IPS officer Viresh Kumar Bhavra has been appointed as the new Director General of Punjab Police.
- The order came hours before the announcement of the dates for assembly elections in five states.
- Punjab has got its third DGP in a span of three months.
Senior IPS officer Viresh Kumar Bhavra has been appointed as the new Director General of Punjab Police, an official order said on Saturday. The order came hours before the announcement of the dates for assembly elections in five states, including Punjab. Punjab Home Guards DGP Bhavra has replaced DGP Siddharth Chattopadhyay.
Chattopadhyay, along with 13 other police and civil officials, appeared in Ferozepur on Friday before a three-member panel set up by the Union Home Ministry to probe “serious lapses” in the security of Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his visit to Ferozepur. Was.
Charanjit Singh Channi Sarkar selected Bhawra, a 1987 batch officer, from a panel of three officers selected by the Union Public Service Commission.
The other two officers in the panel were senior IPS officers Dinkar Gupta and Prabodh Kumar. “On the consideration of the panel received from UPSC, the Governor of Punjab, Viresh Kumar Bhavra, is pleased to appoint IPS as Director General of Police, Punjab (Head of Police Force),” the order said. It said that Bhavra’s tenure would be for a minimum period of two years from the date of assuming office.
Punjab has got its third DGP in a span of three months. A few days back, the UPSC had sent a panel of three IPS officers – Dinkar Gupta, VK Bhavra and Prabodh Kumar – for appointment as the regular Director General of Police of Punjab.
As per the Supreme Court guidelines, out of the three IPS officers selected by the UPSC, the state government has to finalize the name of one officer for the appointment of a regular DGP.
The Punjab government had sent a list of 10 IPS officers, including Siddharth Chattopadhyay, to shortlist the panel of three officers. As per the Supreme Court guidelines, only an officer can be considered for the post of DGP who has at least six months of leave of service. UPSC had taken October 5, 2021 as the cut-off date for selection of DGP and since Chattopadhyay was due to retire on March 31, 2022, his name did not find a place in the panel.
After Charanjit Singh Channi took over as the new chief minister last September, 1988-batch IPS officer Iqbal Preet Singh Sahota was appointed as the caretaker DGP, replacing Dinkar Gupta, the state’s police chief when Amarinder Singh was chief minister. Were. But Punjab Congress President Navjot Singh Sidhu was against the appointment of Sahota.
Later facing pressure from the former cricketer, the state government appointed 1986-batch IPS officer Siddharth Chattopadhyay as the acting DGP until he was appointed a regular DGP from a panel of three IPS officers shortlisted by the UPSC. Was.
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