New Delhi: Back in 2001, Ravi Mohan Saini, then a 14-year boy had won an amount of Rs 1 crore on the celebrated quiz show Kaun Banega Crorepati (junior). Two decades later in 2020, that young boy has become the superintendent of police in Gujarat’s Porbandar.
Ravi Mohan, 33, a 2014-batch IPS officer of the Gujarat cadre took charge Wednesday. Before this, he was the deputy commissioner of Police Zone 1 in Rajkot city.
Hailing from Alwar’s Rajasthan, Ravi Mohan was in class 10 when he came on the famous show hosted by actor Amitabh Bachchan and became the first participant of the format to win Rs 1 crore by answering all 15 questions correctly in a row.
After completing his schooling from Visakhapatnam and Mumbai, he pursued his MBBS from Jaipur’s Mahatma Gandhi Medical College. His father, retired honorary lieutenant Mohanlal Saini, was a naval officer. Ravi Mohan has said that he joined the police force after being inspired by his father.
The IPS officer achieved a rank of 461 at the 2013 Union Public Service Commission exam and got into the police services in his third attempt. He was earlier selected for Indian Post and telecom, accounts and finance services.
Porbandar is the first district under his command as an SP.
‘Got Rs 69 lakh after tax deduction’
In an interview with The Times of India, Ravi Mohan has said that he received Rs 69 lakh after tax deductions, from the Rs 1 crore he had won at the quizzing show, four years later.
“We did not do much with the money, except buying a car and a piece of land in Alwar. Some money was spent on my education,” he said.
He has also said that his role as an SP would be to implement lockdown in Porbandar in view of the Covid-19 pandemic and to ensure that law and order remain his topmost priority.
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31 lakhs for tax! That’s too much!