UPSC prunes list of Kerala police chief probables, CM Vijayan to decide from three

Follow TNM's WhatsApp channel for news updates and story links.The UPSC team, which met in New Delhi, on Thursday, June 26, to screen the list of top IPS officials to be considered for the post of the Kerala state police chief, has zeroed down on three candidates from the list given by the Pinarayi Vijayan government. Apart from the Union government officials, the selection team also included Kerala Chief Secretary A Jayatilak and outgoing DGP Sheikh Darvesh Saheb. The list from Kerala included Nithin Agarwal, Ravadha Chandrasekhar, Yogesh Gupta, and Manoj Abraham (all of them holding the rank of the Director General of Police). Their names have been cleared according to their seniority, and now the ball is in Pinarayi's court to select one from Agarwal, Chandrasekhar and Gupta to be the next state police chief.

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UPSC prunes list of Kerala police chief probables, CM Vijayan to decide from three

Follow TNM's WhatsApp channel for news updates and story links.

THE UPSC team, which met in New Delhi, on Thursday, June 26, to screen the list of top IPS officials to be considered for the post of the Kerala state police chief, has zeroed down on three candidates from the list given by the Pinarayi Vijayan government.

Apart from the Union government officials, the selection team also included Kerala Chief Secretary A Jayatilak and outgoing DGP Sheikh Darvesh Saheb.

The list from Kerala included Nithin Agarwal, Ravadha Chandrasekhar, Yogesh Gupta and Manoj Abraham (all of them holding the rank of the Director General of Police).

Their names have been cleared according to their seniority, and now the ball is in Pinarayi's court to select one from Agarwal, Chandrasekhar and Gupta to be the next state police chief.