NEW DELHI: Senior IPS
officer AP Maheshwari
was on Monday
pointed as director
general of the Central
Reserve Police Force
(CRPF), according to a
personnel ministry order.
Maheshwari, a 1984 batch
IPS officer of the UP
cadre, is at present special
secretary (Internal
Security) in the Union
Home Ministry. He has
been appointed to the
post up to February 28,
2021, the order stated. The
post was lying vacant
after RR Bhatnagar
retired on December
