Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Rajiv Pande was appointed as the Deputy Inspector General of Police, central Kashmir, on Tuesday.

Pande was recently repatriated by the Ministry of Home Affairs from DIG, the National Investigation Agency (NIA), to his parent cadre.

“In the interest of administration, it is hereby ordered that Omprakash Pande, IPS (AGMUT: 2010), upon repatriation to the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir, be posted as DIG, Central Kashmir Range, against an available vacancy, relieving Altaf Ahmad Khan, IPS, of the additional charge of the said post," reads an order issued by the J&K Home department.

(With UNI Inputs)