Guwahati, Nov. 3 -- The Union home ministry on Tuesday appointed 1995-batch IPS officer Rajesh Kumar as the new director general of police (DGP) of Arunachal Pradesh, a day after he was prematurely repatriated from the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) to his parent cadre.

The appointments committee of the Cabinet on Monday cleared the Union home ministry's proposal to repatriate Kumar prematurely to his parent AGMUT cadre with "immediate effect" from the CRPF, where he was serving as Special DG.

In an order issued on Wednesday, the home ministry posted Kumar as the new DGP of the border state, succeeding the incumbent and his batchmate, Shiv Darshan Singh Jamwal, who has been transferred to Delhi.

The change comes at a time when a s...