Senior IPS officer SN Shrivastava will be the next Delhi police commissioner, an MHA official was quoted by PTI as saying on Friday, 28 February. The appointment will be effective from 1 March.
The appointment comes three days after he was named as the new Delhi Police Special Commissioner (Law and Order) as the Union Home Ministry repatriated him from the CRPF amid the violence in northeast Delhi.
The tenure of the current commissioner of police, Amulya Patnaik, comes to an end on Saturday.
“With the approval of the Competent Authority, SN Shrivastava, presently posted with Delhi Police, as Special CP, is hereby given the additional charge of the post of the Commissioner of Police, Delhi, with effect from 1 March and until further orders,”the order said.
A 1985-batch AGMUT cadre officer, Shrivastava had been serving as the Special Director (Training) at the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF).
In the past, Shrivastava has served as Special DG Jammu and Kashmir Zone of CRPF.
Shrivastava joined the elite Special Cell of Delhi Police in 2012. During his tenure, he arrested around 35 terrorists from four separate modules from Indian Mujahideen and Lashkar-e-Taiba, said a senior police officer.
But he faced criticism as Special Cell head in Liaquat Shah case when National Investigation Agency recommended departmental action against 4-5 Special Cell officials for allegedly fabricating a terrorist case against Shah from Hizbul Mujahideen.
He was later transferred to Recruitment Cell and Delhi Armed Police 3rd Battalion.