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DGP Appointment in Tamil Nadu
September 4 , 2025
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- Senior Indian Police Service Officer G. Venkatraman has been appointed as the Director-General of Police in charge of Tamil Nadu.
- He assumed office on August 31, 2025, succeeding Shankar Jiwal.
- He will hold office until a regular Director-General of Police is appointed.
- The appointment of a regular Director-General of Police will follow Supreme Court guidelines from the Prakash Singh case 2018.
- The Tamil Nadu government has sent a list of eight Director-General of Police rank officers to the Union Public Service Commission for empanelment.
- The top three names will be shortlisted by the Union Public Service Commission and sent back to the state for final appointment.
- This is the first time in recent years that Tamil Nadu has not immediately followed the Supreme Court ruling on appointing the Director-General of Police.
- In 2018, K. Ramanujam was appointed with a fixed two-year tenure following the Prakash Singh case.
- The delay in sending the proposal for the new Director-General of Police to the UPSC caused the current temporary appointment.
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