The Government of India Thursday introduced the names of 152 police personnel, which includes 28 women officials, who've been presented the ‘Union Home Minister’s Medal for Excellence in Investigation’ for 2021.
Rakesh Balwal, Superintendent of Police, National Investigation Agency, who unravelled the 2019 Pulwama terror assault case, wherein forty Central Reserve Police Force had been killed, is many of the awardees.
M. Harsha Vardhan, an Additional Commissioner of Police withinside the Arunachal Pradesh Police, has additionally been presented for the probe into the Arunachal “cash-for-job” Staff Selection Board scam, wherein 19 humans had been charge-sheeted.
These 152 personnel are published throughout corporations thru the duration and breadth of the country. Among the awardees, 15 are from the Central Bureau of Investigation, 11 each from Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra Police, 10 from Uttar Pradesh Police, 9 each from Kerala and Rajasthan Police, 8 from Tamil Nadu Police, seven from Bihar Police, 6 each from Gujarat, Karnataka and Delhi Police, and 5 from NIA.
The rest are from the other states and union territories.
According to a central authority respectable, the award was constituted in 2018 to “sell excessive expert requirements of research of crime and to recognize such excellence in a research with the aid of using investigating officials”.
The award, the respectable stated, has “recommended officials”. “It is usually excellent to realize and praise difficult paintings and that's what this medal does. It isn't simply encouraging for officials who toil to accumulate evidence, however additionally pleasing whilst their efforts are appreciated,” the respectable stated on the situation of anonymity.