{"id":93497,"date":"2026-01-15T01:18:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T19:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/?p=93497"},"modified":"2026-01-15T01:18:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T19:48:30","slug":"shatrujeet-singh-kapoor-appointed-itbp-chief-praveen-kumar-to-head-bsf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/15\/shatrujeet-singh-kapoor-appointed-itbp-chief-praveen-kumar-to-head-bsf\/","title":{"rendered":"Shatrujeet Singh Kapoor appointed ITBP chief; Praveen Kumar to head BSF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, Jan 14: Senior IPS officer Shatrujeet Singh Kapoor was on Wednesday appointed as the director general of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP).<\/p>\n<p>He will succeed incumbent Praveen Kumar, who has been named the new chief of the Border Security Force (BSF).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kapoor, a 1990-batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer, is currently working in his cadre state Haryana.<\/p>\n<p>He has been appointed DG, ITBP for a period up to October 31, 2026, the date of his superannuation, according to a Personnel Ministry order.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Incumbent ITBP chief Kumar has been named new DG, BSF.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kumar, a 1993-batch IPS officer of West Bengal cadre, has been appointed for a period up to September 30, 2030, the date of his retirement.\u2013(PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, Jan 14: Senior IPS officer Shatrujeet Singh Kapoor was on Wednesday appointed as the director general of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP). He will succeed incumbent Praveen Kumar, who has been named the new chief of the Border Security Force (BSF). &nbsp; Kapoor, a 1990-batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer, is currently working [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93498,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93499,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93497\/revisions\/93499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}