Shimla, March 25 -- Zahur Haider Zaidi, a 1994-batch officer, has been appointed as inspector general of police (IGP) at the Police Academy Training & Research, Shimla.

The comes around three months after his life sentence, in a custodial death case, was suspended by the Punjab and Haryana high court.

The case dates back to 2017. One one of the suspects in Gudiya gang rape and murder case--Suraj-- died in police custody during the investigation and Zaidi was an IG rank officials. In January 2025, the CBI court of then special judge Alka Malik sentenced Zaidi along with seven other police officers to life imprisonment for the custodial death. The case was transferred to Chandigarh on high court orders.

While pronouncing its verdict on t...