Set out below as it appears on the public record: the charge, where it was held, and what the appointment carries with it. Ranks are given as recorded at the time of posting.
2024 – present
Inspector General of Police Border Range, Bhuj
Promoted to Inspector General grade and appointed to the Border Range in April 2024; recorded in the charge in the Gujarat Government’s IPS list as on 31 August 2025. Range supervision over the Kutch districts on the western frontier, with standing coordination alongside central forces and port authorities.
2023
Additional Commissioner of Police, Sector I Ahmedabad City
A sector charge in Gujarat’s largest commissionerate, covering a group of police divisions: law and order, crime, and the daily direction of a large urban force.
2022 – 2023
Deputy Inspector General of Police Panchmahal Range, Godhra
Posted on 31 October 2022. First range command — inspection of subordinate district police, supervision of investigation quality, and the allocation of men and resources across districts.
Until 2022
Additional Commissioner of Police (Traffic & Crime) Vadodara City
Held immediately before the Panchmahal Range posting. Two of the most publicly felt portfolios in city policing held together: the movement of an entire urban population, and the investigation of its crime.
2016 – 2020
Superintendent of Police, Chief Minister & VIP Security Gandhinagar
Recorded against his name in the state’s published IPS lists across these years. Advance planning, route and venue security, rehearsal, and coordination with district police, intelligence and central agencies for every movement.
2014
Superintendent of Police, State Intelligence Bureau Gandhinagar
Transferred to the state intelligence office in July 2014 from district charge — assessment, early warning and the quiet staff work that precedes any preventive decision.
Until 2014
Superintendent of Police Sabarkantha district
Independent district charge: law and order for a whole administrative district, the formative command in the Indian Police Service.
2006
Appointed to the Indian Police Service Gujarat cadre, 2006 batch
Joined on 29 August 2006 as a direct recruit through the UPSC Civil Services Examination.
Each of the appointments above belongs to a distinct discipline of policing, with its own methods and its own way of being judged.
Policing a jurisdiction defined by an international boundary, a creek system and a long coast — where the civil police work permanently alongside the Border Security Force, the Indian Coast Guard, marine police stations, port authorities and customs.
Inspection and oversight of subordinate district police: the quality of investigation, the integrity of records, the handling of complaints, and the distribution of men and resources across districts under one command.
Security for the Chief Minister and other protected persons: advance survey, route and venue planning, rehearsal, and the coordination of several agencies around a single movement.
State intelligence work: collection, verification and assessment feeding preventive decisions — a discipline in which accuracy matters more than speed and the result is rarely visible.
Sector and portfolio charges in the Vadodara and Ahmedabad commissionerates: urban law and order, crime investigation, and traffic management at the scale of a whole city.
Independent charge of a district as Superintendent of Police — the appointment in which an officer is answerable, by name, for law and order across an entire administrative area.
Gujarat’s police organisation is built in tiers. The police station is the unit of first contact. Above it sits the district, commanded by a Superintendent of Police, or the city commissionerate. Above several districts sits the range, headed by an Inspector General or Deputy Inspector General of Police, and above the ranges sits the Director General of Police at the state headquarters.
The range is a supervisory office rather than an operational one. It inspects. It reviews how investigations are conducted and how complaints are received. It moves men and resources between districts when pressure builds in one place. And it is the level at which the state’s standards are translated into something a station officer can actually apply.
The composition of each range is fixed by the State Government and revised from time to time as districts are reorganised. What has not changed for the Border Range at Bhuj is the reason it exists: the frontier itself.
Four dossiers examine the significance of the appointments — described qualitatively, without invented figures.