Overview
- The Maharashtra government formally appointed the 1990-batch IPS officer as Director General of Police and Head of Police Force through a Home Department order.
- He will assume charge on January 3, coinciding with the retirement of incumbent Rashmi Shukla.
- Under Supreme Court guidelines cited in the order, the state police chief serves a two-year tenure irrespective of the date of superannuation.
- His selection came from a UPSC-recommended panel, and his early return from the NIA was cleared by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet.
- Decorated for bravery during the 26/11 attacks at Mumbai’s Cama Hospital, he has led the ATS, overseen law and order and crime in Mumbai, and held senior posts in the CBI and CRPF.