Director General of Border Security Force (BSF), Rakesh Asthana, who was set to retire three days later, has now been appointed as the new Delhi Police Commissioner.
Asthana, a 1984- batch IPS officer of Gujarat cadre, will be replacing IPS officer Balaji Srivastava.
His vacant post as BSF Chief will be taken over by IPS officer SS Deswal, the Director General of Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP).
During his career, Asthana had been part of several high profile cases. Under then Gujarat CM Narendra Modi, he was appointed as the Vadodra's Police Commissioner.
He had investigated the 2002 Sabarmati Express Fire Incident in Godhra. During his tenure as superintendent of CBI in 1997, he arrested RJD chief, Lalu Prasad Yadav in the fodder scam.
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