Rashmi Shukla becomes first woman DGP of Maharashtra

In a first, the Maharashtra government appointed senior IPS officer Rashmi Shukla as the new Director General of Police (DGP) of the state. She is the first-ever woman to occupy the coveted post.

Shukla, a 1998 batch IPS officer, currently the Director-General of Seema Sashastra Bal (SSB), replaces DGP Rajnish Sheth, who retired on December 31.

She has also been a former Director of the State Intelligence Department (SID) and held other prestigious state and central postings. She had earned the ire of the erstwhile Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government for the alleged phone-snooping cases involving certain leaders.

Mumbai Commissioner of Police, Vivek Phansalkar, was handling the additional charge as DGP, as per an official announcement.