Manoj Yadava | |
Currentstatus: | DGP & Chief of Railway Protection Force |
Birth Date: | 1965 7, df=yes[1] |
Nationality: | Indian |
Children: | 2(sons) |
Badgenumber: | 19881003 |
Department: | Indian Police Service |
Rank: | Director General of Railway Protection Force (July 2023- incumbent) Director General of National Human Rights Commission of India (July 2022-June 2023) Special Director General of Intelligence Bureau (India) (August 2021-July 2022) Director General of Police for Haryana (February 2019- August 2021) |
Awards: | President's Police Medal for Distinguished Service Police Medal for Meritorious Service United Nation Peace Keeping Medal United Nation Foreign Service Medal (Kosovo) |
Birth Place: | Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India |
Cadre: | Haryana |
Batch: | 1988 |
Manoj Yadava (born 30 July 1965) is an Indian Police Service (IPS) officer who is Director General of Railway Protection Force and former Director General of Police of Haryana Police.[2] [3] He had previously held the post of joint director of the Intelligence Bureau at the Union Home Ministry (MHA).[4] [5]
Yadava was born in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India.[6]
His elder son Aditya Vikram Yadav, IAS has secured the rank 72 in UPSC 2018 and currently serving as the District Magistrate (DM) of Sivasagar district in Assam.[7] His younger son Aniruddh Yadav is also an IAS officer. Aniruddh secured the All-India Rank (AIR) 08 in the UPSC Civil Services Exam-2022 result.[8]
Yadava was appointed to the IPS in 1988. He has worked as SP in many districts of Haryana.
He joined the Intelligence Bureau in February 2003.[9]
On 18 February 2019, he was appointed as Director General of Police, Haryana. On 7 January 2021, Haryana government extended his tenure till further orders.[10]
He was replaced by the incumbent Prashanta Kumar Agrawal, an IPS officer of the 1988 batch on 16 August 2021. Yadava is appointed as the Director General of Police or head of Railway Protection Force.[11]