Param Bir Singh Age, Wiki and Bio

Quick Info

Profession	IPS Officer
Nationality	Indian
Date of Birth	20/06/1962
Age	63 years
Birthplace	Paota Village, Faridabad, Haryana

Bio/Wiki

Full name	Param Bir Singh Bhadana

Physical Stats & More

Height	182 cm
Eye Color	Black
Hair Color	Black

Educational Qualification(s)

Education	MA in Sociology at Panjab University

Personal Life

Religion	Hinduism
Caste	Gurjar
Zodiac sign	Gemini

Relationships & More

Marital Status	Married

Family

Father

Hoshiar Singh

Mother

Name not known

Siblings

Brother	Manbir Singh Bhadana (lawyer) and one other
Sister	None

Spouse

Savita Singh (former Independent Director of LIC Housing Finance Ltd)

Children

Son	Rohan (businessman)
Daughter	Raina (working as a corporate sector employee in London)

Career

Civil Service	Indian Police Service (IPS)
Batch	1988
Cadre	Maharashtra
Journey	He started his career as a sub-divisional police officer (SDPO) and got his formative posting as the Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) of Chandrapur. He was the DCP of Thane (Mumbai) and also served as the DCP of the Mumbai Crime Branch. While serving as the DCP of Mumbai's Crime Branch in the early 90s, he headed an encounter specialist team of Mumbai Police that was created to counter the rising gangsterism in Mumbai. While he was the Additional Commissioner of Maharashtra's Anti-terrorism Squad (ATS), the ATS arrested Pragya Thakur (now a member of BJP) and Lt Col Prasad Shrikant Purohit in the 2008 Malegaon blasts case. Under his supervision, ATS nabbed the former zonal director of Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) Saji Mohan (ex-IPS) with 39 Kgs of heroin. In 2019, Saji Mohan was sentenced to 15 years of jail term under the NDPS Act. In 2017, when he was Thane Police Commissioner, a local crime branch team of Thane, headed by encounter specialist Pradeep Sharma, arrested India's most wanted fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim's brother Iqbal Kaskar under extortion charges. In February 2019, he was posted as the DGP of the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB). During his stint as the DGP of ACB, he gave a clean chit to Nationalist Congress Party's leader Ajit Pawar in the Vidarbha irrigation scam case. In February 2020, he was appointed as the Commissioner of Mumbai Police. Some of the significant cases that were probed by the Mumbai Police when Param Bir Singh was its head include Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput's suicide case, TRP manipulation scam that accused some big news channels of fraudulently increasing their viewership, and previously closed abetment to suicide case of Anvay Naik in which Republic TV's head Arnab Goswami was arrested. In March 2021, he was shunted out as Police Commissioner of Mumbai to Commandant General of Home Guards (Maharashtra) for administrative exigencies.

Some Lesser Known Facts

Param Bir Singh, a 1988-batch IPS officer, gained fame in the early 90s for fighting Mumbai's underworld.
He is retiring from service in June 2022 after a career exceeding three decades.
Param Bir was a top student at Panjab University and excelled in extracurriculars like cricket.
His son, Rohan, is married to Rupali S. Meghe, granddaughter of BJP leader Dattatraya R. Meghe.
Param's brother, Manbir Singh Bhadana, chaired the HPSC until July 2019.
He socializes with Bollywood celebrities and was spotted at a Christmas party with Salman Khan in 2012.
In March 2020, Param accused Home Minister Anil Deshmukh of corruption in a letter to Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray.