NEW DELHI: Senior IPS officer SN Srivastava was on Friday (February 28, 2020) appointed as the new Police Commissioner of Delhi. He succeeds Amulya Patnaik, who was given an extension of one month which is set to end on February 29.
SN Srivastava was on Tuesday appointed as Special Commissioner of Police in Delhi and tasked with bringing normalcy in the violence-hit Delhi.
Before taking over law and order in the national capital, Srivastava was posted as Additional Director General in CRPF. He is the senior-most officer of AGMUT cadre and a batchmate of serving Delhi Police Commissioner Amulya Patnaik.
The Union Home Ministry had brought in Srivastava to contain the law and order crisis in the national capital after it found that the serving officers were unable to control the situation after clashes between pro and anti-CAA protesters which has so far claimed the lives of at least 39 people and left over 200 seriously injured in the northeast Delhi – the region most affected by violence.
Srivastava’s appointment as Delhi Police chief comes at a time when Delhi Police are facing one of the biggest crises ever in the aftermath of clashes between pro and anti-CAA protesters in North-East Delhi.
Bureau Report
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