Senior IPS officer Anand Prakash Maheshwari was on Monday appointed as the Director-General of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF). The post of DG CRPF was lying vacant after R R Bhatnagar retired on December 31.
Maheshwari, a 1984 batch IPS officer of the Uttar Pradesh cadre, has been appointed to the post up to February 28, 2021, i.e. the date of his superannuation, the order stated.