In a major development ending weeks of speculation, 1992-batch IPS officer and current Tihar Jail DG Satish Golcha is set to take additional charge as Delhi’s Police Commissioner, with incumbent SBK Singh.
IPS Satish Golcha, presently posted as Director General (Prisons), Delhi, is appointed to the post of the Commissioner of Police, Delhi, with effect from the date of assumption of charge and until further orders. pic.twitter.com/v8VDt7eZ46
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“With the approval of the Competent Authority, Sh. Satish Golcha, IPS (AGMUT:1992), presently posted as Director General (Prisons), Delhi, is hereby appointed to the post of the Commissioner of Police, Delhi with effect from the date of assumption of charge and until further orders,” an order by the home ministry said.
Golcha will be replacing SBK Singh, Director General of Home Guards, who was appointed as acting commissioner of Delhi Police by the Home Ministry on August 1.
The new development comes a day after a heinous attack on Delhi’s CM Rekha Gupta during a public meeting. Investigations into the attack revealed that the assailant had been planning it for a while and carried it out after a detailed recce of the CM’s residence.
The assailant, Rajesh Sakariya, held for attacking Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta during ‘Jan Sunwai’ at her camp office in Civil Lines here on Wednesday, is a “serial offender” and several cases have been registered against him in Rajkot in Gujarat, officials said.
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