New Delhi/Bhubaneswar: Altogether 31 officers from Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), including one from Odisha, have been awarded police medals on the occasion of 77th Republic Day.
Six officers were awarded the President’s Police Medal for Distinguished Service while 25 received the Police Medal for Meritorious Service, the CBI said in a statement on Sunday.
Joint Director V Chandrasekhar, a 2000-batch IPS officer from Gujarat cadre who supervised the high-profile investigation into the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at Kolkata’s R G Kar Medical College, was conferred with the President’s Medal for Distinguished Service. The other recipients of this award include Superintendent of Police Amit Srivastava, Additional Superintendent of Police Muke
sh Sharma, Sub-Inspector Pramod Kumar Yati, Assistant Sub-Inspector Chaman Lal, and Head Constable Ramu Golla.
Baidyanath Samal, an Additional Superintendent of Police at CBI’s Bhubaneswar office, received the Police Medal for Meritorious Service. C Venkata Subba Reddy, a 2007-batch IPS officer posted as joint director in the agency and his batchmate Sadanand Shakarrao Date, who left the agency as DIG to join his cadre as inspector general, were also conferred with the award. The other recipients include Deputy Legal Advisor Manmohan Sharma; Additional SP Kailash Sahu; Deputy SPs Rubi Choudhary, Manish Kumar Upadhyay, Anmol Sachan, Nishu Kushwaha, Arijit Sinha, Sharad Suresh Bhawar, Thahir Abbas P, and Dharmendra Kumar; Inspector Dharmender; Programmer Deepti Vashista; ASI Vinod Kumar; Officer Superintendent Narikote Nandini; Head Constables Netram Chourasiya, Puran Mal Gujjar, Bhola Roy, Babu Varghese, and Vikram Singh; and Constables Sanjeev Kumar, Waikhom Rajesh Singh, and Rupendra Kumar.