Director General of Police (DGP), Anti Corruption Bureau PP Pandey, the 1980-batch Gujarat cadre IPS officer who is currently on bail in the encounter case of Ishrat Jahan and others, has taken over charge as in-charge DGP of Gujarat following sudden transferred of incumbent DGP PC Thakur to New Delhi.
Pandey was appointed as Additional Director General of Police on February 10 after a CBI court granted him bail in the Ishrat Jahan encounter case. In fact the State Government had revoked the suspension order of Pandey and appointed him on the vacant post at the State Capital Gandhinagar.
He is the senior-most in hierarchy as far as the Gujarat cadre IPS officers are concerned after the transfer of 1979-batch Thankur with immediate effect to New Delhi as DG of Fire Services, Civil Defence and Home Guards, till his superannuation in December 2016.
After assuming charge as the top cop of the State Pandey told the media that for the past 35 years he is serving as a police officer and that his only duty is to serve the people of Gujarat.