Amulya Patnaik, currently a Special Commissioner, has been appointed the Delhi Police Commissioner, the Home Ministry announced on Monday. He will succeed Alok Kumar Verma who was made the CBI chief earlier this month. Patnaik is a 1985 batch Arunachal Pradesh-Goa-Mizoram and Union Territory (AGMUT) cadre IPS officer.
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Patnaik, who hails from Odisha, was one of the front runners for the top post along with two other senior officers, Deepak Mishra and Dharmendra Kumar.
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