Asra Garg

Asra Garg
Nationality Indian
Alma mater Thapar University
Years active 2004 – till date
Known for On a deputation to Central Bureau of Investigation
Home town Patiala, India
Asra Garg
Awards Tamilnadu Chief Minister's Police Medal for Outstanding Devotion to Duty[1]
Police career
Department Indian Police Service
Rank Deputy Inspector General of Police

Asra Garg is senior Indian Police Service Officer from the batch of the Tamil Nadu Cadre. He has been on a deputation to the Central Bureau of Investigation since 2016.

Personal life

Born in the city of Patiala, Garg completed his schooling from DAV in Mansa, Punjab, and later on went to acquire a degree in Electrical Engineering from Thapar University. When the time came to choose between joining the Indian Administrative Service and Indian Police Service, Garg chose the latter due to his desire to stand by justice and uphold the law. Although Garg's mother tongue is Punjabi, he is well-versed in Tamil. A voracious reader with a keen ear for music, Garg spends his free time reading eclectic books and listening to ghazals by the legendary singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. His parents are retired erudite lecturers who taught at esteemed colleges in Patiala.

Career

Early career

A 2004 batch graduate from the Tamil Nadu Cadre, Garg began his police career at Tirupattur in the Vellore district as the Assistant Superintendent of Police.

Superintendent of Police

In 2008, Garg was appointed as the Suprintendent of Police of Tirunelveli district (Rural), where he held office until 2010. During this period, Garg played a proactive role in managing the usury menace, and played a vital role in saving the people from the money lendors who were charging exorbitant interest rates, he formed a special force to track down and curtail the activities of moneylenders who used goons to collect loans.[2]

Rather than waiting for complaints against any kind of crime, Garg made his team go out and find willing complainants.[3]

Garg was also appreciated for curbing other criminal operations and maintaining the peace in the communally sensitive area.[4]

In 2010, Garg was posted as the Superintendent of Police at a rural segment in the Madurai district,[5] where he set out to fight against corruption during elections and helped resolve a major, long-standing communal conflict. He initiated peace negotiations between the warring dalits and non-dalits in the village of Uthapuram, despite coming under attack by a 300-strong mob in the wake of the demolition of a 180-metre wall that segregated the two communities.[6][7]

Furthermore, Garg filed a case against a teashop owner at Madaipatti in Usilampatti taluk for practising the discriminatory 'two-tumbler' system, wherein non-dalits are served tea in stainless steel tumblers, while dalits are served in disposable cups.[8]

In 2013, Garg was commended for preventing the marriage of an HIV infected man with a young girl in Devadanapatti.[9]

Garg also played a key role in Dharmapuri district's first conviction in a land grabbing case, a pertinent issue at the time. Besides, in Dharmapuri, Garg busted a kidney racket by making several arrests and nabbing the kingpin, Garg brought an end to the organ grafting racket, which was one of the crimes with the highest gravity.[10]

Garg's investigative skills helped in proving an alleged murder case to be suicide, which prevented the escalation of a communal turmoil, thereby restoring peace in the region.[11] [12]

Deputy Inspector General

In 2014, Garg was posted in Chennai for a period of one year where he proved his efficiency in administrative skills, after which, in 2016, he went on a deputation to the Central Bureau of Investigation as Superintendent of Police.

Eventually, Garg was promoted to Deputy Inspector General of Police in February 2018, at the Central Bureau of Investigation, New Delhi; where he is still serving his good office.[13]

Awards and honours

See also

References

  1. ↑ Tamil Nadu Government Gazette
  2. ↑ "Usury menace in Thisaiyanvilai severe". The Hindu. 8 July 2009. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  3. ↑ "Meet IPS Officer Asra Garg, the Man Who Is Restoring Our Faith in the System". The Better India. 28 October 2017. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  4. ↑ "HC pats Asra Garg for uniting Dalits and caste Hindus". The Times of India. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  5. ↑ "MADURAI'S BRAVEHEARTS". The Times of India. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  6. ↑ "Friend of Dalits". theweekendleader.com. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  7. ↑ "Wall vs will". frontline.in. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  8. ↑ Karthikeyan, D. (24 May 2012). "Madurai villages still practising the two-tumbler system". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  9. ↑ Raju, K. (17 September 2013). "Police to the aid of girl about to marry person with HIV". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  10. ↑ Arivanantham, R. (13 June 2013). "Kidney racket: police question 11 persons". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  11. ↑ https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/no-proof-that-ilavarasan-was-murdered-sp/article4996792.ece
  12. ↑ https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/dalit-youth-ilavarasans-death-is-a-case-of-suicide-cb-cid-informs-madras-hc/articleshow/57270694.cms
  13. ↑ "Asra Garg moves to CBI after illustrious stint in Tamil Nadu hinterland". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
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