PANAJI: DIG Ravindra Yadav, an officer of the 1995 batch of IPS, has been awarded the President's police medal for meritorious services. This was announced by the union home ministry on Wednesday.
"If my father was alive, he would have been really proud of me. He was part of the Indian Army team that liberated Goa in 1961 and today, in the Golden jubilee year of Goa's liberation, I have been awarded the President's police medal while I am serving in Goa", DIG Yadav told TOI.
While seniors call Yadav a "balanced, experienced and hardworking officer who is an asset to the police force", the juniors describe him as "professional who likes to maintain a low profile and gives due credit to his juniors when it is deserved".
Posted to Goa in 2008, he is a direct supervisory officer of the two district police forces, crime branch, anti narcotic cell (ANC) and economic offences cell (EOC). He has also ensured the arrest of alleged serial killer Mahanand Naik and the Chandrakant Talwar gang members, who were involved in a series of murders of women for money.
He earned the respect of his colleagues and general public when he led from the front to launch a jungle operation in the Agonda forest against the armed kidnappers of Starling D'Souza, son of a North Goa hotelier, and ensured the safe rescue of the victim.
He also supervised the police team that rescued the kidnapped Aamir Sayed from Vasco and Sagar Wadhwani from Mysore. He has closely guided the Goa police's special investigation team (SIT) in investigations and arresting the accused responsible for planting bombs on October 16, 2009, which was applauded by the national investigation agency (NIA), which later took over the investigations.
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