Updated On: 03 January, 2026 05:38 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
IPS Sadanand Date formally took over at the state police headquarters, following his appointment on December 31. Date will serve a two-year tenure, leading a police force of more than two lakh personnel

Sadanand Date took charge as Maharashtra DGP on Saturday. Pic/Sameer Abedi
Senior Indian Police Service (IPS) officer and 26/11 terror attack hero cop Sadanand Vasant Date on Saturday assumed charge as the Director General of Maharashtra Police.
He succeeds Rashmi Shukla, the state’s first woman DGP, who retired the same day.