Chandigarh, January 4
While a senior Punjab minister denied any move of Director-General of Police S.S. Virk being shifted as chief of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), some important Central police organisations (CPOs) are set to get their new heads later this month.
Incidentally, Mr Virk is one of several IPS officers who have been empanelled for appointment as Director-General of Police of a CPO. His empanelment was approved recently.
According to sources, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has to name a successor to Dr K.K. Paul, Commissioner of Police of Delhi, besides the new chiefs of the CRPF and the RPF.
Insiders maintain that there may be a reshuffle among the existing chiefs of various CPOs.
At present, the chief of the National Security Guards, Mr Jyoti Dutt, is holding the additional charge of the CRPF.
Besides the CPOs, a new Secretary of Internal Security in the MHA is also to be named. Normally, this
position also to a senior IPS officer empanelled for appointment as DGP of a CPO. The possibility of new chiefs of RAW, the IB and the CBI being named later this month cannot be ruled out.
Mr Virk, who belongs to the Maharashtra cadre, is currently on deputation with the Punjab Police.
“We have no intimation about his appointment as chief of the CRPF,” said a senior Punjab minister. “To be honest, there is no proposal to shift Mr Virk,” he asserted.
Mr Virk categorically denied any such development. Senior functionaries in the Punjab Home Department, too, expressed ignorance about any such move.
