Gurugram: Senior IPS officer Shatrujeet Singh Kapur has been appointed as Director General of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) almost three months after being sent on leave and later relieved of the charge of Haryana Director General of Police (DGP), following allegations against him in connection with a fellow police officer’s suicide.
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet Wednesday cleared Kapur’s appointment to head the force tasked with guarding the country’s frontier with China.
The 1990-batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer of the Haryana cadre will serve as ITBP chief until 31 October, 2026, the date of his superannuation, according to a personnel ministry order accessed by ThePrint.
Kapur succeeds incumbent Praveen Kumar, who has been named the new director general of the Border Security Force (BSF). The latter, a 1993-batch IPS officer of West Bengal cadre, has been appointed to the BSF post up to 30 September, 2030, vide the same order.
Kapur’s appointment comes in the backdrop of a controversy that rocked the Haryana Police last year, after Y. Puran Kumar, a 2001-batch IPS officer, allegedly shot himself dead at his Chandigarh residence and left behind a ‘final note’ holding top police officials, including then DGP Kapur, as responsible for his extreme step.
In the nine-page suicide note, Kumar accused multiple senior officials of targeted mental harassment, caste-based discrimination, public humiliation and atrocities.
Kumar’s wife, senior IAS officer Amneet P. Kumar, lodged a complaint seeking an FIR against Kapur and then Rohtak Superintendent of Police Narendra Bijarniya under Section 108 (abetment to suicide) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and relevant provisions of the SC and ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.
The Chandigarh Police registered an FIR against 15 senior officials, including Kapur, Haryana Chief Secretary Anurag Rastogi and Bijarniya. A Special Investigation Team was constituted under Inspector General Pushpendra Kumar to probe the case.
The SIT has already recorded statements of 14 IAS and IPS officers named in the suicide note, including Kapur, who was questioned in December. Kapur was sent on leave on 14 October, 2025.
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Kapur’s career
Born in 1966 in Jind, Haryana, Kapur holds a B.Tech degree in mechanical engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra. He joined the IPS in September 1991.
Kapur’s career spans varied postings. After initial assignments as Assistant Superintendent of Police in Gurugram and Hisar in 1992, he served as Superintendent of Police in Bhiwani in 1995, and was later posted in Karnal for highway patrol and road safety.
Between 2002 and 2008, Kapur worked with the Central Bureau of Investigation, holding positions as Superintendent of Police and Deputy Inspector General. He also served in the UN Peacekeeping Mission in Kosovo from 2001 to 2002.
In Haryana, he held key positions including Inspector General of Police in Hisar and Rewari, and Commissioner of Police in Faridabad.
When the BJP came to power in Haryana in 2014, Kapur was appointed as the state’s Crime Investigation Department chief. He later served as chairman and managing director of the state’s power distribution companies, UHBVN and DHBVN, from September 2016 to February 2021.
He was considered close to then Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar.
In September 2021, Kapur was appointed the Director General of Haryana’s Vigilance Bureau, now renamed as the Vigilance & Anti-Corruption Bureau.
He was appointed Haryana DGP on August 16, 2023, succeeding P.K. Aggarwal. Kapur was selected from a Union Public Service Commission-empanelled list of three 1990-batch officers.
He was the junior-most among the three and superseded Muhammad Akil and R.C. Mishra, a move attributed to his proximity to Khattar.
Kapur’s term, first as ACB chief and later as DGP, marked the arrest of two IAS officers in corruption cases. Last year, the state government declined approval to prosecute the two.
In October 2023, Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and Haryana Civil Service (HCS) officers registered strong reservations against the “overreach” of the ACB with then Chief Secretary, Sanjeev Kaushal, as well as Khattar. The officers had expressed concern that in the last two years, the ACB had targeted around 12 IAS, 20 HCS officers and 3 Indian Foreign Service officers.
Last month, the Haryana government relieved Kapur of the charge of DGP.
He was again included in the UPSC-empanelled list of three officers when the state was to select its new DGP. This time, Kapur was the seniormost among the three with Ajay Singhal (1992 batch), and Alok Mittal (1993 batch) being the other two. However, the state picked Singhal who was appointed the new DGP of Haryana from 1 January.
(Edited by Nida Fatima Siddiqui)
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