The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) has for the first time appointed a female IPS officer as the Inspector General (IG) of the paramilitary’s sensitive Srinagar Sector, one of the most terror-hit areas in Jammu and Kashmir.
The 1996-batch Telangana cadre IPS officer Charu Sinha will head the Srinagar Sector of CRPF as the Inspector General. She was earlier heading the Jammu Sector.
Earlier, Sinha had worked as IG of CRPF’s Bihar Sector and had successfully led various anti-Naxal operations in the area of responsibility following which she was transferred to Jammu to head the Sector as IG.
On Monday, the CRPF headquarters issued an order assigning her the task to lead the Srinagar Sector.
Director General of CRPF AP Maheshwari headed the Srinagar Sector as IG in 2005. The Srinagar Sector started functioning in 2005 but never had a female officer to lead it. This sector is engaged in anti-terror operations in close conjunction with the Indian Army and Jammu and Kashmir police.
The Srinagar Sector, located at Brein Nishat, Srinagar has operational jurisdiction over three districts of Budgam, Ganderbal and Srinagar as also the Union Territory of Ladakh.