SSB chief Rashmi Shukla appointed as Maharashtra DGP
Hindustan TimesMUMBAI: The Maharashtra government on Thursday appointed Rashmi Shukla, a 1988-batch Indian Police Service officer as the state’s next director general of police, the first woman police officer to hold the top police post in the state. Rashmi Shukla was appointed director general of the SSB in March last year Mumbai police commissioner Vivek Phansalkar is holding additional charge as DGP Maharashtra after Rajnish Seth retired on December 31. Shukla’s appointment as Maharashtra DGP less than a year after she was appointed in March last year as director general of the Sashastra Seema Bal, the central police force deployed along the border with Nepal. The senior police officer turns 60 in June but is expected to get a two-year term The senior police officer’s previous tenure as the state intelligence commissioner turned controversial following accusations that she illegally ordered tapping of Opposition leaders’ phones during the Devendra Fadnavis-led government between 2014 and 2019.