Following the unexpected removal of Maharashtra’s first woman Director General of Police (DGP), Rashmi Shukla, by the Election Commission of India (ECI), the latter has appointed 1990-batch IPS officer Sanjay Kumar Verma as the new DGP of the Maharashtra Police.

In a letter to the state chief secretary, ECI Secretary S K Das stated, “I am directed to convey that the commission has considered the panel and approved the name of Shri Sanjay Kumar Verma, IPS (MH:1990), for posting as DGP Maharashtra.”