IPS officer VS Yadav has been appointed as Tripura’s new DGP. Yadav is a Tripura cadre IPS officer of the 1987 batch.
He is currently serving as the principal secretary to the OBC Welfare department.
Additional director-general (law and order) of Tripura Police, Rajiv Singh was serving as the DGP in-charge of the state.
After the retirement of Akhil Kumar Shukla as the director-general of police (DGP) on January 31 this year, there was no full-fledged DGP in Tripura for the last 10 months.