Two IPS officer from Haryana cadre to work in the SIT probing Manipur violence
Tuesday | May 20 2025 | 01:37:58 PM
Tuesday | May 20 2025 | 01:37:58 PM
New Delhi, September 23
The Haryana government has named two IPS officers Surinder Pal Singh and Sunil Kumar to be in-charge of Special Investigation Team (SIT)s to investigate the violence in Manipur.
Surinder Pal is a 2010 batch IPS officer, while Sunil Kumar is a 2012 batch officer of the Indian Police Services. Both officers are currently working as commandants of Haryana Armed Police (Madhuban) battalions.
The officers shall be on deputation to CBI and shall perform their functions under the overall structure of the CBI. They will submit periodic information and reports as may be requested by former Maharashtra DGP Dattatray Padsalgikar.
The Union Home Ministry had asked state governments of Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Assam and Tripura to depute two SP level officers each for disposal of their services to the CBI.
The Supreme Court had appointed former Maharashtra DGP Dattatray Padsalgikar to supervise the probe by the CBI into the FIRs transferred to the bureau and the investigation by the investigative machinery of the state into the remaining FIRs.
The Haryana Government informed the MHA about the nomination of the two IPS officers for the SITs.
IPS officer Dattatray Padsalgikar is supervising the probe into cases arising out of ethnic clashes in Manipur as well as the committee of three former high court judges looking into the humanitarian aspects, to submit a progress report to the court in two months.
