Satish Golcha replaces SBK Singh as Commissioner of Delhi Police a day after attack on CM Rekha Gupta

The Ministry of Home Affairs on Thursday appointed IPS Satish Golcha as the Commissioner of Police, Delhi, with immediate effect.

Golcha, currently posted as Director General of Tihar Jail, Delhi, is an IPS officer of 1992 batch. He has earlier served as the deputy commissioner of police (DCP), joint commissioner and special commissioner of Delhi Police.

He was recognised for his actions as the special commissioner of police (law and order) during riots in northeast Delhi in 2020. He also served as the director general of police (DGP) of Arunachal Pradesh from February 2022 to June 2023, before he was transferred back to Delhi.


“With the approval of the Competent Authority, Sh. Satish Golcha, IPS (AGMUT:1992), presently posted as Director General (Prisons), Delhi, is hereby appointed to the post of the Commissioner of Police, Delhi with effect from the date of assumption of charge and until further orders,” an order by the home ministry said.

Golcha has replaced S B K Singh, Director General of Home Guards, who was serving as acting commissioner of Delhi Police by the home ministry on August 1.

The appointment comes only a day after Chief Minister Rekha Gupta was attacked at a weekly public hearing at her official residence in Civil Lines.

The chief minister was attacked by a 41-year-old man who came from Gujarat's Rajkot. He had entered posing as a complainant. The accused, Rajeshbhai Khimjibhai Sakriya, an auto driver in Rajkot, was overpowered by the CM’s security team and others present there.

An FIR under sections pertaining to attempt to murder has been filed against him.