Dilbagh Singh appointed as Full-Time DGP of Jammu Kashmir
   01-Nov-2018
 
 
 
Dilbag Singh has been appointed as full-time Director General of Police in Jammu Kashmir on Wednesday. Singh was made the state DGP as per the guidelines of the Supreme Court, officials said in Jammu. He took over as interim chief of the state police force on September 6 after his predecessor S P Vaid, caught in a verbal duel with the new Jammu and Kashmir administration, was shunted out and posted as transport commissioner.


Principal Secretary Home, R K Goyal, had issued an order to this effect which read that he shall also hold additional charge of the posts of Director General of Police (Prisons) till further orders and Director, Fire and Emergency Services, till December 31.
The name of Singh, a 1987-batch IPS officer, was cleared by the State Administrative Council headed by Governor Satyapal Malik here. A panel of three names for the post was submitted by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) last week. The Supreme Court on September 20 had made it clear that Singh will continue in office till the UPSC scrutinizes and provides a panel of three police officers for regular appointment of the police chief.
Dilbag Singh’s batch mate V K Singh, who was functioning as Special Director General at the police headquarters, has been shifted and posted as commandant general of home guards, civil defense and the state’s disaster rescue Force.