Bhubaneswar: Former DGP of Tamil Nadu Jalad Kumar Tripathy has been appointed as the Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) of Odisha.
He is a 1985-batch IPS officer (retd) of TN cadre.
His appointment was notified by the Information and Public Relations Department on Thursday.
The post of the CIC had fallen vacant with Sunil Mishra retiring on August 15 this year.
Tripathy, who retired as DGP on June 30, was also the Police Commissioner of Chennai.
Born at Bheda of Cuttack district, he served in some sensitive posts in TN like IGP, South Zone. He was posted with the Crime Branch CID and Economic Offences Wing and gained popularity for cracking the 2012 Chennai Bank Robberies.
The Odia officer is also the first cop to receive the ‘Prime Minister’s Award for Excellence in Public Administration’ in 2008.
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