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Charu Sinha appointed IG CRPF in Srinagar, first female IPS officer to take charge in terrorist hit sector

1st-September-2020

SRINAGAR: For the first time, a female IPS officer has been appointed as Inspector General (IG) of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) Srinagar sector, one of the terrorist affected areas in Jammu and Kashmir.

Charu Sinha, IPS officer of the 1996 batch of Telangana cadre, will now be heading the Srinagar sector for CRPF as the Inspector General.

This is not the first time when she has been assigned such a tough task, earlier also she had worked as IG, the Bihar sector in CRPF and has dealt with Naxals.

Under her leadership, various anti Naxals operations were carried out. Later, she was transferred to Jammu as IG CRPF where she spent a long and successful tenure.