Pramod Kushwah is a 1995 batch
IPS officer of the
DANIPS cadre. Kushwaha was the officer in-charge of
Nirbhaya case; at that time, he was serving as Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police for
Delhi. In the following years, Kushwaha served as Deputy Commissioner (DCP) of
Delhi Police's special cell, a wing of Delhi Police established for counter terrorist operations. In 2018 he received information regarding an
Indian Mujahideen terrorist, Ariz Khan, who escaped from Batla House just before the
2008 encounter incident. As a response to this, he despatched a team to arrest Khan, who was en route to Uttar Pradesh to meet a sympathiser of Indian Mujahideen and was planning to revive the banned terrorist group. In 2020, Delhi Police under him arrested a couple, who were members of
Islamic State Khorasan Province, a terrorist organisation. After interrogation, it was revealed that they were sent to incite violence in
Anti-CAA protests. They also stated that they were involved in inciting Indian Muslims on social media platforms in order to motivate them for rebellion against Indian establishment. In 2021, Kushwaha arrested a
Pakistani national named Mohammad Ashraf from Laxmi Nagar area in Delhi. It was reported after preliminary investigation that the suspect was living in India, disguised as Indian citizen and he had some linkage with terrorists and the sleeper cells. It was revealed that, this arrest subverted some big terrorist operation, that was about to be conducted in India. Investigation also revealed that suspect was trained by ISI and was involved in several small scale terrorist activities in
Jammu and Kashmir. In 2022, he was transferred to
Arunachal Pradesh by Rakesh Asthana, the Commissioner of Delhi Police. In January 2023, Delhi Police Special Cell under Kushwaha arrested two terror suspects Jagjit Singh (29) and Naushad (56) – and recovered 22 cartridges along with 3 pistols. They were arrested from
Uttarakhand and Jahangirpuri respectively and one of them had alleged links with Islamist terrorist group Harkat-ul-Ansar. Special Cell of Delhi Police also conducted inter-state operations under Kushwaha. In 2022, it was involved in arrest of three assailants, who were involved in assassination of a follower of
Dera Sacha Sauda sect. It was reported that the assailants were working for
Canada based gangster Goldy Brar, who was also an accused in murder of Punjabi singer
Sidhu Moosewala. ==See also==