New Delhi:
In a sudden move, the Director General of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), Vikram Srivastav, has been transferred.
He will now be replaced by Vijay Kumar who is currently the director of the National Police Academy in Hyderabad.
Srivastav, who was made the CRPF Director General in February this year, is a 1973-batch IPS officer from the Uttar Pradesh cadre and has been made the chief of Bureau of Police Research and Development in Delhi.
He had come under attack after the Dantewada massacre in which 75 CRPF men lost their lives in a Maoist attack on April 6 in Chhattisgarh.
58-year-old Vijay Kumar, a Tamil Nadu cadre IPS officer, had achieved fame when he headed the Special Task Force (STF) for a long time and strategised operations that culminated in the elimination of the dreaded sandalwood smuggler Veerapan in October 2004.
Vijay Kumar headed the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy in Hyderabad from 2008. Earlier, he had also had a stint in BSF as an Inspector General in Kashmir for two years.
Winner of President's Police Medal for gallantry, the 1975-batch officer will head a force of nearly three lakh personnel. (With PTI inputs)