A career
in motion
Read from top to bottom as a record, and from left to right as a movement: year, position, and the institution the appointment sat inside. Every entry below is drawn from an official list, a government order, or established reporting. Nothing has been filled in to close a gap.
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200010 January
Appointed to the Indian Police Service
Enters the Indian Police Service as a direct recruit through the Union Public Service Commission’s Civil Services Examination, in the 1999 batch, allotted the Gujarat cadre. Service formally commences on 10 January 2000 under IPS identity number 19991032.
Indian Police ServiceGujarat cadre · Direct recruit
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2014and 2016 — extensions
Inter-cadre deputation to Nagaland · Inspector General of Police (Range)
Serves in his home state of Nagaland on inter-cadre deputation from the Gujarat cadre. Nagaland state records list his designation as Inspector General of Police (Range).
Government records show the deputation tenure extended for two years beyond 2 November 2014, and extended again for a further two years beyond 2 November 2016. The start of the deputation is not stated in the sources consulted and is therefore not given here.
Nagaland PoliceRange command · Multi-district supervision
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201910 May
Empanelled as Inspector General, Government of India
Empanelled to hold Inspector General–level posts under the Government of India. Central empanelment is a formal recognition of an officer’s suitability for senior appointments at the national level, and a necessary step before deputation to central organisations at that rank.
Government of IndiaCentral empanelment · IG level
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2019to 2023
Inspector General of Police (Intelligence – 1), State CID (IB), Gandhinagar
Heads an intelligence portfolio within the Gujarat State CID (Intelligence Bureau) at Gandhinagar. The state intelligence establishment collects, collates and assesses information bearing on public order and internal security, and supplies the assessments on which senior command and the state government act.
No operational detail of this period is published on this site.
Gujarat PoliceState CID (IB) · Gandhinagar
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202115 August
Police Medal for Meritorious Service
Awarded the Police Medal for Meritorious Service in the Independence Day 2021 list announced by the Ministry of Home Affairs, recorded against his then-designation of IGP (Intelligence – 1), Gandhinagar, Gujarat. In all, 1,380 police personnel received medals in that announcement.
Ministry of Home AffairsIndependence Day list · 2021
Interval / Gujarat Police
From the intelligence
headquarters to
the city
The move from Gandhinagar to Surat in 2023 is the pivot of this record: from a headquarters role built around assessment and reporting, to a city command role built around visible presence, immediate decision and public answerability.
The postings that follow are all within the Surat City Police Commissionerate.
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2023July / August
Joint Commissioner of Police, Sector 1, Surat City
Transferred from the state intelligence establishment to Surat City as Joint Commissioner of Police, Sector 1. The Gujarat Police IPS civil list records his posting to Surat City Sector I from 3 August 2023.
A city commissionerate of Surat’s size is divided into sectors, each under a senior officer responsible for the police stations, zones and divisions within it.
Surat City PoliceSector 1 · Joint Commissioner
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2024April
Promoted to Additional Director General of Police grade · Special Commissioner of Police, Sector I
Promoted to the Additional Director General of Police grade in the scale of pay Level 15, and appointed Special Commissioner of Police, Sector I, Surat City — continuing in the same sector at a higher rank and with a correspondingly wider span of responsibility.
Gujarat PoliceADGP grade · Pay Level 15
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20266 March
State-wide transfer order · awaiting posting
In a Gujarat government order transferring 37 IPS officers, he is moved out of the post of Special Commissioner of Police, Sector 1, Surat City and kept on waiting for posting until further orders.
Waiting for posting is a routine administrative state between substantive appointments in the All India Services; it carries no adverse implication in itself.
Government of GujaratTransfer order · 37 IPS officers
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20263 July — most recent
In-charge Police Commissioner, Surat City
Given charge of the Surat City Police Commissionerate as in-charge Police Commissioner, following the transfer of the incumbent Commissioner to Ahmedabad. Reporting at the time records that he holds the charge until a further order is issued.
This is the most recent publicly reported responsibility available at the time of writing. It is an in-charge arrangement and is not presented here as a substantive or permanent designation.
Surat City PoliceIn-charge · Until further orders
Method
How this
archive was built
Each entry above was checked against at least one of the following before it was written: the Gujarat Police list of IPS officers, Government of India empanelment and deputation records, Nagaland state police records, Gujarat government transfer orders, Ministry of Home Affairs medal announcements, and established news organisations reporting on official orders.
Where sources disagree on a detail, the official cadre record has been preferred over secondary reporting. Where a date could not be established — the start of the Nagaland deputation, for example — no date has been supplied. Early-career district appointments that do not appear in accessible public records have been omitted rather than reconstructed.