The appointedAjay KumarSingh as the new director general of Police (DGP), ending the prevailing suspense of a headless police force after the retirement of the outgoing incumbent Neeraj Sinha last week.
The state Home, prison and Disaster Management department issued a notification of transferring Singh, who was serving as the chairman-cum-managing director of theJharkhand PoliceHousing Corporation Limited with the additional charge of the director general of the anti-Corruption bureau, as the new DGP.
Singh, an Ips officer of the 1989 batch, was among the three officers approved by the Union Public Service Commission for the post.