2 police officials to get President's Service Medal, 21 selected for Meritorious Service
Piyush Patel IPS (Director of ACB, Ahmedabad) and Mukesh Jagdishchandara Solanki, SP with Gujarat state police intelligence department were honoured with the President's Service Medal.
For the first time in the history of the Surat police department, six police officials have been selected for Meritorious Service out of 21 police officials falling in the category.
The police officials selected for medal for Meritorious Services are Sharad Singhal (IPS) Joint police commissioner (Crime) Ahmedabad city; K N Damor (IPS), Joint police commissioner Sector 2, Surat city; R P Barot (IPS) Deputy commissioner of police Zone 5 Surat city; Babubhai Desai (Deputy Superintendent of police Panchmahal-Godhra); Mahavirsinh Vaghela (Deputy Superintendent of Police, State Law and Order, Gandhinagar); Bhupendrakumar Dave (Deputy Superintendent of police, Valsad); Milind Surve (Police inspector Valsad); Rajendrasinh Solanki (Police sub inspector Surat city); Vishnusinh Rathod (Police sub inspector with State Monitoring Cell, Gandhinagar); Lalitkumar Joshi (Police sub inspector at Madana); Kamlesh Patil (Assistant Sub Inspector, Ahmedabad city); Anilkumar Gamit (Assistant Sub Inspector, Surat city); Paresh Patel (Assistant Sub Inspector Surat city); Sahdev Desai (Assistant Sub Inspector, Surat city); Vinodkumar Vadhel (Assistant Sub Inspector, Nadiad); Bakulkumar Parmar (Assistant Sub Inspector, Western Railway, Ahmedabad); Rakeshsinh Bhadoria (Head Constable, Ahmedabad city); Vikramsinh Jajeja (Head Constable, Gandhidham); Pankajsinh Rana (Intelligence officer, Gandhinagar); Virendrasinh Chavda (Assistant Intelligence officer, Gandhinagar) and Rameshkumar Tripathi (Police Constable, Ahmedabad city).
Talking to The Indian Express, Surat Police Commissioner Anupam Singh Gahlaut said, 'It is for the first time that six police officials from Surat are being honoured with such a prestigious award at a time. This will help and motivate other police officials of Surat city to work hard. I congratulate all six police officials.'
Sources in the police department of Valsad said that Deputy Superintendent of Police of Valsad Bhupendrakumar Dave had supervised and carried out investigations into case of a rape-cum-murder of a 19-year-old woman in Valsad, which led to the arrest of Rahul Jat, a resident of Rohtak in Haryana. Rahul Jat later confessed to have committed 8 offences of rape-cum-murders in different states such as Karnataka, West Bengal, Andra Pradesh, Telangana and Gujarat.
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