Senior IPS officer Nupur Prasad, who supervised the CBI investigation into the demise of actor Sushant Singh Rajput, has been chosen for the distinguished President’s Medal for Distinguished Service this 12 months.
Prasad, a 2007-batch AGMUT-cadre IPS officer, lately accomplished her tenure with the Central Bureau of Investigation and returned to the Delhi Police. She is at the moment serving as Joint Commissioner of Police within the Financial Offences Wing.
The award quotation describes Prasad as an “achieved officer” and a pacesetter recognized for “versatility, integrity and institutional imaginative and prescient”. It highlights her work throughout the Delhi Police, CBI, West Bengal and Arunachal Pradesh, together with a number of high-profile investigations and main policing initiatives.
ROLE IN SUSHANT SINGH RAJPUT DEATH PROBE
Prasad’s position within the Sushant Singh Rajput investigation was among the many most distinguished assignments of her CBI tenure.
Rajput, 34, was discovered useless at his Bandra residence in Mumbai on June 14, 2020. The Mumbai Police initially registered an unintentional demise case and investigated the circumstances surrounding his demise.
The case took a significant flip after Rajput’s father, Okay Okay Singh, filed an FIR in Patna in opposition to actress Rhea Chakraborty and others, alleging abetment to suicide, monetary wrongdoing and harassment.
Following the authorized and political controversy surrounding the jurisdiction of the investigation, the CBI took over the case in August 2020.
The investigation continued for practically 5 years and concerned examination of witnesses, scrutiny of medical and forensic proof and investigation of allegations of homicide, abetment to suicide and different suspected wrongdoing.
The case generated intense public and media scrutiny, with a number of theories circulating on social media and tv, together with allegations of poisoning and strangulation.
In March 2025, the CBI filed closure reports before courts in Mumbai and Patna, stating that its investigation had discovered no proof of foul play, abetment to suicide or legal conspiracy in Rajput’s demise.
DISTINGUISHED POLICING CAREER
The President’s Medal quotation highlights Prasad’s work throughout a number of difficult assignments.
As the primary DCP of Shahdara, she was tasked with establishing the district’s policing framework from the bottom up. Throughout her tenure, she led motion in opposition to drug networks and playing operations and labored to make Anand Vihar a “snatching-free zone”.
As DCP, North District, Prasad oversaw safety preparations for main occasions, together with Delhi College elections and Independence Day celebrations on the Pink Fort.
She additionally spearheaded community-oriented initiatives, together with girls’s self-defence coaching, hygiene camps in collaboration with the Ladli Basis, youth skill-development programmes and drug de-addiction initiatives with SPYM.
Her profession additionally contains vital assignments outdoors Delhi. In West Bengal, she dealt with safety preparations throughout the 2011 Meeting elections and the Ganga Sagar Mela.
As Superintendent of Police in Arunachal Pradesh, she labored to revive inter-tribal peace and dismantle extortion networks.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO POLICING REFORMS
Throughout her CBI tenure, Prasad supervised a few of the company’s vital circumstances, together with the AgustaWestland investigation and the Sushant Singh Rajput demise case.
She additionally contributed to the CBI Crime Handbook 2020 and the company’s Imaginative and prescient Doc. She was related to preparations for the Interpol Normal Meeting 2022 and the G20 Cyber Convention.
After returning to the Delhi Police, Prasad launched the MyKase software program for trial monitoring whereas serving within the Financial Offences Wing.
She additionally contributed to the Bureau of Police Analysis and Growth’s Nationwide Police Mission, Micro Mission.
PRESIDENT’S MEDAL FOR DISTINGUISHED SERVICE
The President’s Medal for Distinguished Service is among the many highest service honours conferred on police personnel.
Prasad’s choice recognises a profession spanning investigation, law-and-order policing, group outreach, institutional reform and assignments in a few of the nation’s most difficult safety environments.
Her supervision of the Sushant Singh Rajput investigation stays one of the vital high-profile assignments of her CBI tenure, with the company finally concluding that there was no proof of foul play within the actor’s demise.
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