Amitesh Kumar is new Nagpur CP
03 Sep 2020 06:48:19
Amitesh Kumar
Special Correspondent :
AMITESH Kumar, an Indian Police Service (IPS) officer of 1995 batch will take over as 34th Commissioner of Police of Nagpur on Friday. He replaces Dr Bhushan Kumar Upadhyay who has been transferred to Mumbai as Additional Director General (Traffic), Maharashtra. Amitesh Kumar, who was Joint Director, State Intelligence Department (SID), has been promoted to the rank of ADG and sent to Nagpur as City Police Chief. The Home Department effected transfers of nine ADG rank officers on Wednesday. Rajneesh Seth, who was ADG (Law & Order), has been promoted as Director General of Police to head Anti-Corruption Bureau. Amitesh Kumar had also served as Joint Commissioner of Police (Traffic), Mumbai and Commissioner of Police, Aurangabad.
A recipient of President’s Police Medal for meritorious service and outstanding achievements in the field of professional policing, Kumar had also worked as Deputy Commissioner of Police in Nagpur and Mumbai, Superintendent of Police in Solapur and Aurangabad (Rural), Commissioner of Police, Amravati, Additional Commissioner of Police (ATS), and Special Inspector General of Police (Aurangabad Range). A degree holder in economics from Delhi’s St Stephen’s College, Amitesh Kumar is also post-graduate in law and cyber law. Outgoing City Police Chief Dr Upadhyay said, “I had a very satisfying and successful tenure of over two years as Commissioner of Police in Nagpur.
“I express my deep gratitude to people of Nagpur for being with me all the time during the tenure. As a result we curbed the crime rate and maintained law and order as well as social and communal harmony,” he added. Dr Upadhyay said, “I am thankful to entire Nagpur Police force for doing excellent and exemplary work. Even the media was always very cooperative and encouraging. Nagpur is always in my heart.”
Officer who exposed match-fixing link While working as Deputy Commissioner of Police in Nagpur, Amitesh Kumar had ‘exposed’ the taped telephonic conversation between West Indian player Marlon Samuels and a bookie when the latter had allegedly given out information on batting line-up for the one-dayer against India on January 31, 2007. Kumar’s team allegedly had evidence that Samuels was in touch with an alleged bookie named Mukesh Kochar who was considered to be one of the associates of D-Company. A team of Anti-Corruption and Security Unit of International Cricket Council (ICC) had also arrived in the city to probe the match-fixing allegations. The ICC team had also met Dr Bhushan Kumar Upadhyay who was at that time Additional Commissioner of Police (Crime).