Senior IPS officer Daljit Singh Chaudhary appointed director general of SSB

Senior Indian Police Service officer Daljit Singh Chaudhary was on Friday appointed as the director general of the Sashastra Seema Bal SSB a Personnel Ministry order saidChaudhary a 1990 batch Indian Police Service IPS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre is presently working as a special director of the General of the Central Reserve Police Force CRPFThe Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved his appointment as the DG SSB for a period up to November 30 2025 ie the date of his superannuation the order saidThe SSB guards Indias frontiers with Nepal and BhutanThe top post in the central armed police force was lying vacant following repatriation of Rashmi Shukla to her cadre state Maharashtra earlier this monthShukla was appointed as Maharashtras new Director General of Police DGP earlier this month The state home department issued an order on the appointment of IPS Rashmi Shukla as the new DGPRashmi Shukla an Indian Police Service officer of 1988 batch was posted as director general of the Sashastra Seema Bal SSB on deputationMumbai Police Commissioner Vivek Phansalkar was holding additional charge as DGP Maharashtra after Maharashtra DGP Rajnish Seth retired on December 31An order issued by the Eknath Shinde government had earlier said that Vivek Phansalkar will hold additional charge of the states top police post till further orders as per the PTIMeanwhile in September last year the Bombay High Court had quashed two FIRs registered against Rashmi Shukla for alleged illegal phone tapping the PTI had earlier reportedTwo first information reports FIRs were filed against Shukla one in Pune and another at Colaba in south Mumbai for allegedly illegally tapping the phones of opposition leaders when Devendra Fadnavis was the chief minister of the state as per the PTIThe FIRs were registered when the Uddhav Thackerayled Maha Vikas Aghadi MVA government was in powerThe alleged illegal phone tapping had taken place when Shukla headed the state intelligence department SID police earlier saidShuklas counsel had informed the Bombay High Court that in the Pune FIR the police had submitted a CSummary report case is neither false nor true and had sought to close the case and in the Mumbai case the state government had refused to grant sanction to prosecute Shukla according to the news agencys reportA division bench of Justices A S Gadkari and Sharmila Deshmukh had accepted this and quashed the two FIRs as per the PTIThe Pune case was registered for allegedly recording phone calls of Congress leader Nana Patole while the Mumbai case was for recording phone calls of Shiv Sena UBT MP Sanjay Raut and Nationalist Congress Party NCP leader Eknath Khadse who was earlier with the Bharatiya Janata Party BJP according to the PTI