New Delhi, August 14, 2009

Rajvir Singh, Inspector in National Human Rights Commission has been chosen for the President's Police Medal for the meritorious services. He is the sixth police officer of the Investigation Division of the Commission in the last three years to get this honour. He was part of major spot enquiry teams of the Commission in recent past, which investigated among others, Nandigram violence in West Bengal, communal violence in Kandhmal in Orissa and Chhattisgarh violence. He joined Central Industrial Security Force as an Assistant Sub Inspector in 1982 and moved NHRC in 2006.

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