Manipur Governor Ajay Kumar Bhalla has repatriated an IPS officer and a Delhi Police inspector to the Delhi Police. They had been attached to the Manipur Police more than two years back on the directions of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA). The governor has also asked the MHA for their substitutes to be deputed to Manipur to assist the violence-ravaged state in probing the cases related to ethnic violence.
It should be recalled that in the ethnic violence that erupted on May 3, 2023, over 200 people had been killed, several hundred injured, and thousands displaced in Manipur. The ensuing bloody incidents of violence led the MHA to ask all states to nominate superintendent of police-rank officers for attachment to Manipur. As per directions of the MHA, the Delhi Police deputed Harendra Kumar Singh (IPS:2011:DP), who was a superintendent of police at the time, to Manipur along with Inspector Praveen Kumar Maheshwari.
Singh, who has now completed more than two years of service in Manipur, was promoted to the Deputy Inspector-General (DIG) rank on January 1 this year and hence has been repatriated to his home cadre.
In August 2023, the MHA had asked the Delhi Police to place its officials at the disposal of the CBI. In its response on September 13, 2023, the then additional commissioner of Delhi Police (headquarters), P K Mishra wrote to the CBI director saying that the Delhi Police had nominated four officers—IPS officers Shweta Chauhan (IPS:2010:DP) and Esha Pandey (IPS:2010:DP), Harendra Kumar Singh (IPS:2011:DP), and Inspector Praveen Kumar Maheshwari—and placed them at the disposal of the CBI for investigations into FIRs related to the Manipur violence.
While Pandey was deputed to the CBI, the other three officers were directed to work with the Manipur Government. Later Pandey and Chauhan were promoted to the rank of DIG and were repatriated to their parent cadre after some months. The remaining two, Harendra Kumar Singh and Inspector Praveen Kumar Maheshwari, were attached with the Manipur police.
In an order issued earlier this month, the Manipur government informed the MHA that the two officers—Singh and Maheshwari—are being repatriated to their parent departments.
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