IPS Sanjay Pandey is grabbing a lot of limelight as he has been appointed as the new chief of the Mumbai police, know his biography, age, wife, batch, contact number
Mr. Sanjay Pandey is replacing Hemant Nagrale who was made the Mumbai police chief. Mr. Param Bir Singh was shifted from the post last year, making it the third time in under a year that the Mumbai Police is also witnessing a change of guard.
Know Who Is IPS Sanjay Pandey Mumbai Police Commissioner Age, Biography, Batch, Family, Wife
Sanjay Pandey was born in 1962 on 30th September in Mumbai and is a 1986 batch IPS officer. He studied computer engineering at IIT Kanpur. He is 5ft 6in tall and weighs around 65 kgs. Presently he is 60 years of age. After getting his bachelor’s degree from IIT Kanpur, he went to Howard University to pursue his bachelor’s. His family details are not known but he is married.
Mr. Sanjay Pandey is an erstwhile Director-General of the Police of Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. He has been appointed as the new Mumbai Police commissioner, replacing Mr. Hemant Nagrale.
An official order was given by Mr. Nagrale that Pandey will take over. Earlier Nagrale was the Managing Director of the Mumbai, Maharashtra State Security Corporation.
This is one of the third times in less than a year that the Mumbai Police is witnessing a change of the guard. Initially, the city police chief Mr. Param Bir Singh was shunted out in March of the year 2021 after the arrest of the officer Sachin Waze in the case of ‘Antilia’ explosives case.
It is also considered as one of the rare occasions that a police officer who oversaw the functioning of the entire state police has also been asked to head Mumbai Police. Moreover, officers getting appointed as the Mumbai Police chief are considered to be a very prestigious posting at the time.
Mr. Sanjay Pandey is a 1986 year batch IPS officer who was appointed as the acting DGP in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India in April last year. He was never given full charge. Later he was shifted from his place by Rajnish Seth, a 1988 year batch IPS officer, earlier this month, in February after the Bombay High Court rapped the state government.
Following the reshuffle of the officials, Mr. Pandey stated in a social media post that the system worked to do “undo some of the injustice” done to his professional career record in the previous days and he was leaving the post.
His contact number is +91 7506777100.