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Kashmir
gets new paramilitary boss
Wednesday, October 20, 2010 07:20:45 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
The government Wednesday approved the appointment of a new head
for the paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) in Jammu
and Kashmir, which has been battling nearly four months of unrest
that has seen 110 people killed, most of them in firing by
security forces.
Senior Indian Police Service (IPS)
officer Anirudh Uppal will replace N.K. Tripathy as the special
director general of CRPF in Jammu and Kashmir, an official
statement said.
Uppal, a 1976 Himachal Pradesh IPS officer, has been appointed as
"special director general CRPF located at Jammu with effect from
the date of his joining the post and till his superannuation on
30.9.2012 or until further orders," said the statement.
He is currently additional director general, Indo-Tibetan Border
Police (ITBP) and has also served as inspector general with the
National Security Guard (NSG) in Delhi.
Uppal's posting comes amid relentless unrest in the Kashmir Valley
triggered by separatists. The CRPF has drawn flak for allegedly
failing to maintain restraint while controlling stone-throwing
protesters. Over 100 civilians were shot dead by police and
paramilitary troopers in clashes with protesters.
The order follows an approval of the Appointments Committee of
Cabinet headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
The committee also approved the appointment of Tripathy, a
1974-batch Madhya Pradesh cadre IPS officer, as the new director
general of the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) in Delhi.
He replaces R.K. Mathur, who has been moved as the new director of
the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy at Hyderabad.
The post of the director at the academy fell vacant after K. Vijay
Kumar was appointed the new director general of CRPF recently.
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