In an important development Gujarat’s Director General of Police (DGP) PC Thakur was on Friday transferred and appointed as Director General, Fire Services, Civil Defence and Home Guards in New Delhi. Sources in the State home department said that the Union Government has requested the Gujarat Government to release Thakur with immediate effect for his new assignment.
The 1979 batch IPS officer has been appointment for the post till his retirement due on December 31 this year. Thakur was made Gujarat DGP in December 2013 after sudden death of then Gujarat DGP Amitabh Pathak who died due to massive heart attack in Thailand when he was on vacation.