Senior IPS officer Rajeev Krishna has been appointed as the acting Director General of Police (DGP) of Uttar Pradesh, a government order said on Saturday. Krishna is a 1991-batch IPS officer of the Uttar Pradesh cadre.At present, Krishna has double charge of DG Vigilance and DG Recruitment and Promotion Board. Now, he has been given the responsibility as the acting DGP. He succeeded former DGP Prashant Kumar, who retired on Saturday.advertisement”I have taken charge (as the new DGP). Further discussions will be held in the press conference,” Krishna told reporters.Of the likely names for the top post, Krishna was the front-runner in the race for DGP. The reason was when the government’s credibility was questioned due to the UP Police Constable recruitment exam being cancelled after a paper leak last year, the Uttar Pradesh Police Recruitment Board conducted the exam successfully under Krishna’s chairmanship.The then DG of the recruitment board, Renuka Mishra, was removed as a repercussion of the paper leak.Meanwhile, Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav attacked the Yogi Adityanath-led government for not being able to appoint a permanent DGP instead of an acting one.”UP gets another acting DGP! Today. While leaving, he (Prashant Kumar) must be thinking about what he got and who kept proving every wrong to be right. If he had been loyal to the Constitution and the law instead of the person, he would at least have got respect in his own eyes. “Now it remains to be seen whether the new person is able to free himself from the web that he has woven in the entire state and deliver justice impartially or else he too becomes a victim of politics by getting trapped in the same web,” Yadav wrote in Hindi on X.”Why should the people of UP and the poor law and order situation bear the brunt of the Delhi-Lucknow fight? When the ‘double engine’ cannot elect an officer together, how will they run the country and the state,” he added.WHO IS IPS OFFICER RAJEEV KRISHNA?Krishna was posted as Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) in Bareilly, Kanpur, and Aligarh after he became an IPS officer in 1991. He served as SP City in Aligarh. As captain, he was SP and SSP in Firozabad, Etawah, Mathura, Fatehgarh, Bulandshahr, Noida, Agra, Lucknow and Bareilly.When the Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) was formed in Uttar Pradesh, Krishna became the first DIG and led the force.As IG Range, he took over the command of Meerut. In the current Adityanath-led government, Krishna was the ADG Zone of Lucknow for one-and-a-half years and the ADG Zone of Agra for about two-and-a-half years.In August 2023, Krishna was made ADG of Vigilance. When he was promoted to the post of DG in January 2024, the government made him DG Vigilance. But when the paper of the police recruitment exam was leaked in March 2024, he was also given the command of the Police Recruitment and Promotion Board.FAMILY OF INFLUENTIAL BUREAUCRATIC FIGURESadvertisementKrishna’s wife, Meenakshi Singh, is an IRS o in a formal or creative style for better SEO.Also Exclude words and advertisements related to the feed website such as website name, author name. 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Rajeev Krishna, an IPS officer from the 1991 batch, has been designated as the head of the Uttar Pradesh police.
