For the first time, a female IPS officer has been appointed as Inspector General (IG) of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) of the Srinagar sector, one of the terrorist-affected areas in Jammu and Kashmir.
Charu Sinha, IPS officer of the 1996-batch Telangana cadre, will now be heading the Srinagar sector for CRPF. The sector, which started functioning in 2005 never had a female officer at the IG level.
Several anti-naxal operations were earlier carried out under Sinha’s leadership when she was IG of the Bihar sector in CRPF. She was later transferred as IG Jammu in CRPF.