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IPS Arun Dev Gautam -New DGP of Chhattisgarh – File Photo
The Chhattisgarh government on Tuesday appointed 1992 batch IPS officer Arun Dev Gautam as the acting Director General of Police (DGP). Gautam will replace 1989 batch IPS officer Ashok Juneja, who retired from the post of DGP on Monday February 3, 2025
Raipur : The Chhattisgarh government on Tuesday February 4, 2025 appointed 1992 batch IPS officer Arun Dev Gautam as the acting Director General of Police (DGP). Gautam will replace 1989 batch IPS officer Ashok Juneja, who retired as DGP on Monday.
As per the order of the Home Department, Director General of Home Guards and Civil Defence Arun Dev Gautam, who holds the additional charge of Director of Public Prosecution, has been temporarily given the charge of DGP. He will continue to handle the existing departments till further orders.
Ashok Juneja was made the acting DGP on November 11, 2021 and was appointed to the post full-time on August 5, 2022. He was to retire in August last year, but the state government had given him an extension of six months.
