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Former J&K governor advisor, K Vijay Kumar appointed senior security advisor in MHA; 67-year-old to be in position for one year from date of taking charge
•1975-batch officer of the Indian Police Service will 'advise the ministry on security-related matters', said the order
Supreme Court agrees to hear plea against Delhi HC verdict quashing cadre allocation of IAS, IPS officers from 2018 batch
•The high court had said that it was inclined to grant relief to petitioners considering that they have approached the court at the very earliest and at a stage when neither IAS nor IPS officers of the 2018 batch have commenced their on-site training which is cadre-specific.
CBI calls Sunday drama in Kolkata 'most unfortunate', seeks directive to Rajeev Kumar to cooperate in plea to SC
Yatishyadav •The CBI has alleged that Kolkata Police commissioner Rajeev Kumar is now destroying the evidence pertaining to the Saradha chit scam case.
Chhattisgarh government reshuffles 16 IPS officers; second shake-up by Congress regime in four days
•In another major administrative reshuffle in four days, the newly-elected Congress government in Chhattisgarh has assigned new postings to 16 Indian Police Service (IPS) officers, including superintendents of police of 11 districts.
Succession battle pits R&AW against IPS cadres as ugly internal squabbling remains an open secret in India's spy agency
Praveen •The growing pile of cases brought to the Central Administrative Tribunal by RAS officers include one involving Jitendra Ojha—the man who from 2013-15 was in charge of training spies at RAW’s academy in New Delhi.
CBI vs CBI hearing: Supreme Court reserves order on Centre action against Alok Verma; CJI asks why strip CBI director of powers suddenly
Fp Staff •The Supreme Court on Thursday reserved its order on the pleas filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Director Alok Verma and NGO Common Cause challenging the decision of the Central government to send Verma on leave.
'We'll tie their hands, legs and thrash them': Woman IPS officer from Maharashtra transferred after rant against Dalits goes viral
•In a video that has gone viral, Bhagyashree Navtake, a probationary Indian Police Service (IPS) officer who was posted as an assistant superintendent of police in Majalgaon, over 400 km from Mumbai, purportedly said she had also beaten up Muslims in the last six months.
#MeToo India: Assam woman cop claims current ADGP sexually harassed her, husband killed self after she filed complaint
Syeda Ambia Zahan •In the backdrop of the #MeToo movement, Leena Doley, who serves as the Additional Superintendent of Police (APS) in Assam, has taken to Facebook to talk about workplace harassment meted out to her by a senior official. She says she is going to take her "fight to the next level" after she failed to get justice from the enquiry commitee set up under Vishakha guidelines in the year 2012.
NSG military operations commander's post lying vacant for past six months; force seeks MHA's intervention
•In the NSG hierarchy, the counter-terror and counter-hijack commando units are placed under the overall command of IG (Operations), a post based in the NSG headquarters in Delhi.
Alok Verma’s ego clash with Rakesh Asthana irreparably damages CBI, creates administrative crisis for Centre
Ajay Singh •The fight that began with this one-upmanship turned into a full-fledged internecine war.