Senior IPS officer Rajiv Rai Bhatnagar was on Wednesday appointed as the Director General of the CRPF, two days after 25 personnel of the force were massacred by
Naxals in Chhattisgarh.
The paramilitary force was headless for nearly two months after the retirement of K Durga Prasad on February 28. Senior IPS officer R K Pachnanda was also appointed as the DG of Indo Tibetan Border Police force.