Parambir Singh, an IPS officer of the 1988 batch, has been named as the new Commissioner of Police for Mumbai. The outgoing commissioner, Sanjay Barve, who had alredy been given two extensions, retires on Saturday from police service. Singh is at present Director General of Police for Anti Corruption Bureau (DG-ACB).
Bipin K Singh, the Additional Director General (ADG) of the ACB, has now been given the additional charge as the DG of the anti-graft agency. A 1990-batch IPS officer, Bipin Singh has been awarded President Police Medal.
Known to be a dashing police officer, Prambir Singh has had an illustrious career. He shot to fame first during his stint as Deputy Commissioner of Police of the famed Crime Branch in Mumbai in the late 1990s. He played a key role in tackling underworld-related crimes back then.
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A number of officers, other than Parambir Singh, were in the race to become Mumbai CP. They included Hemant Nagrale, Rashmi Shukla, Rajnish Seth, Bipin Bihari and Sadanand Date, who recently returned to Mumbai after completing his five-year deputation at the Centre.
Singh has held many important posts in the Maharashtra police. Before becoming DG-ACB, he had served as the Commissioner of Police at Thane. It was during his tenure as CP, Thane that he arrested Iqbal Kaskar, brother of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, in an extortion case. He also busted a major drug cartel during his tenure in Thane. He had also served as the Additional Director General of Police (Law and Order) in the state, it added.
It was during Singh's tenure as DG-ACB that Ajit Pawar was recently given a clean chit in the multi-crore irrigation scam probe.
