SunstarTV Bureau: Bihar government appointed senior IPS officer, Sanjeev Kumar Singhal as the Director General of Police (DGP) of the state, on Saturday.
Singhal has been holding the additional charge of DGP after then then state police Chief, Gupteshwar Pandey took the voluntary retirement from service, in September, 2020.
The home department notification stated, “Sanjeev Kumar Singhal, a 1988 batch Bihar cadre IPS officer, currently holding the post of DG-cum-Commandant General of Bihar Home Guards and Fire Services, is appointed as the DGP, Bihar till further orders and will retire, on August 31, 2021.”