Senior IPS officer SN Shrivastava to be the next Delhi police commissioner, officials said on Friday. Incumbent Amulya Patnaik demits office on Saturday.

The government's order to give Shrivastava additional charge of Delhi Police chief though raised concerns whether he would continue on the post or any other officer would be appointed to head the 84,000 strong force.

The 1985-batch officer of Arunachal Pradesh-Goa-Mizoram and Union Territory (AGMUT) cadre, Srivastava, has been presently holding the charge of Special Commissioner of Delhi Police.

Shrivastava was drafted into the Delhi Police on Tuesday evening to bring the riot-hit areas of the northeast district under control.

Life was limping back to normalcy in some parts of the riot-hit northeast Delhi, with police and paramilitary personnel maintaining strict vigil in view of Friday prayers at mosques.

The Union Home Ministry said on Thursday night that no major incident was reported from the northeast district in the past 36 hours. It had said that prohibitory orders imposed under Section 144 would be relaxed for 10 hours in view of improvement in the situation.

At least 38 were killed and over 200 injured in the communal clashes that broke out in northeast Delhi on Monday after violence between citizenship law supporters and protesters spiralled out of control.

Shrivastava was earlier posted as Special Director General (Training) with the Central Reserve Police Force. He was ADG (western zone) looking after Jammu and Kashmir at the peak of violence in 2016-17 when Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani was gunned down.

The Central Reserve Police Force, where Shrivastava was serving as the Special Director General (Training), issued his reliving order for his "premature repatriation" from the paramilitary force soon after Home Ministry's direction.

Earlier, Shrivastava headed the Delhi Police Special Cell and was instrumental in the arrest of scores of Indian Mujahideen operatives. He has served the Delhi Police in various capacities in the past.

Meanwhile, Patnaik's extended tenure ends on February 29. He is a 1985 batch IPS officer from Union Territories cadre, and was appointed as Delhi Police chief on January 30, 2017. He retired from the post on January 31 but was given one month extension in view Delhi Assembly elections which concluded earlier this month.

With inputs from agencies

First Published:Feb 28, 2020 12:15 PM IST