New Delhi, Oct 27 The Centre on Tuesday gave the additional charge of ITBP DG to Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) chief Sanjay Singhal following Shatrujeet Kapoor’s retirement on October 31.
An order issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) said that Singhal will hold the charge of the Director General (DG) of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) “till the appointment of a regular incumbent or until further orders”, whichever is earlier.
Kapoor, a 1990-batch IPS officer and a former Haryana DGP, served the ITBP for about 10 months after taking charge in January. He is scheduled to retire on October 31.
In 2024, Kapoor was sent on leave by the Haryana government following a controversy over the death of 2001-batch IPS officer Y Puran Kumar who was serving as an inspector general in the state.
While officiating at an ITBP regimental event in Rajasthan’s Alwar district on October 22, Kapoor said that a faceoff between Indian soldiers and the Chinese PLA troops was “continuing” at various locations in Arunachal Pradesh.
He also praised the role of the ITBP’s ‘Shaurya’ commandos during the incident.
Kapoor said the force has raised drone platoons in all its border units, prepared a new ‘Strike’ course to better handle Galwan-like battles and is creating underground infrastructure along the front “in a big way” as part of the new warfare to counter India’s “biggest adversary”, China.
The ITBP, raised in 1962, guards the 3,488-km-long Line of Actual Control (LAC) with China.
Singhal is a 1993-batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer from the Uttar Pradesh cadre.
(PTI News)
