The Ministry of Home Affairs on Thursday selected IPS Satish Golcha as the Commissioner of Police, Delhi, with instant impact.
Golcha, presently published as Director General of Tihar Jail, Delhi, is an IPS officer of 1992 batch. He has earlier functioned as the deputy commissioner of cops (DCP), joint commissioner and unique commissioner of Delhi Police.
He was identified for his actions as the unique commissioner of authorities (order) throughout riots in northeast Delhi in 2020. He likewise functioned as the director general of authorities (DGP) of Arunachal Pradesh from February 2022 to June 2023, before he was moved back to Delhi.
“With the approval of the Competent Authority, Sh. Satish Golcha, IPS (AGMUT:1992), currently published as Director General (Prisons), Delhi, is thus selected to the post of the Commissioner of Police, Delhi with impact from the date of presumption of charge and up until more orders,” an order by the home ministry stated.
Golcha has actually changed S B K Singh, Director General of Home Guards, who was acting as acting commissioner of Delhi Police by the home ministry on August 1.
The visit comes just a day after Chief Minister Rekha Gupta was assaulted at a weekly public hearing at her main home in Civil Lines.
The primary minister was assaulted by a 41-year-old male who originated from Gujarat’s Rajkot. He had actually gone into impersonating a plaintiff. The implicated, Rajeshbhai Khimjibhai Sakriya, a car motorist in Rajkot, was subdued by the CM’s security group and others present there.
An FIR under areas referring to try to murder has actually been submitted versus him.