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1970-2020

The Indian Police Journal

Golden Jubilee Edition
Volume 67, Number 2 ISSN 0537-2429 April-June 2020

‘Promoting Good Practices and Standards’

 The Indian Police Journal
Volume 67, Number 2 | April-June, 2020

Board of Reviewers
1. Shri R.K. Raghavan, IPS (Retd.) 13. Shri Ajay Kumar Jain
Former Director, CBI Professor, Organisational Behaviour,
2. Shri P.M. Nair Management Development Institute,
Chair Prof. TISS, Mumbai Gurugram

3. Shri Vijay Raghavan 14. Shri Balwinder Singh

Prof. TISS, Mumbai Former Spl. Director, CBI
Former Secretary, CVC
4. Shri N. Ramachandran
President, Indian Police Foundation, 15. Shri Nandkumar Saravade
New Delhi-110017 CEO, ReBIT & Former CEO,
Data Security Council of India (DSCI)
5. Prof. (Dr.) Arvind Verma
Dept. of Criminal Justice, 16. Shri M.L. Sharma
Indiana University Bloomington, Former Spl. Director, CBI
IN 47405 USA 17. Shri S. Balaji
6. Dr. Trinath Mishra, IPS (Retd.) Former Spl. DG, NIA
Former Director, CBI 18. Prof. N. Balakrishnan
Former DG, CISF & CRPF Hon. Professor
7. Prof. V.S. Mani Super Computer Education & Research
Former Prof. JNU Centre, Indian Institute of Science,
Bengaluru
8. Shri Rakesh Jaruhar
Former Spl. DG, CRPF 19. Shri R.C. Arora
DG(Retd.) Former Director (R&D), BPR&D
9. Dr. K. Salim Ali
Former Spl. Director, CBI 20. Dr. Upneet Lalli
Dy. Director, Institute of Correctional
10. Shri Sanjay Singh, IPS Administration, Chandigarh and
ADG & IGP, CID, West Bengal Co-founder of SAFE
11. Dr. K.P.C. Gandhi 21. Shri B.K. Nagla
Director of AP Forensic Science Lab Former Professor, MDU Rohtak
12. Dr. J.R. Gaur 22. Dr. A.K. Saxena
Former Director, FSL, Shimla (H.P.) Former Professor, SVPNPA, Hyderabad

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Police Research & Development, but of the individual contributors. Authors are solely
responsible for the details and statements made in their articles. BPR&D reserves the right to
delete/amend any paragraph or content.

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 1970-2020

IPJ
The Indian Police Journal
Volume 67, Number 2 | April-June, 2020

Editorial Board

Chief Patron
Sh. V.S.K. Kaumudi, IPS,
DG, BPR&D, MHA,
New Delhi

Editor-in-chief
Sh. Santosh Mehra, IPS,
ADG, BPR&D, MHA,
New Delhi

Executive Editor
Sh. Shashi Kant Upadhyay
DIG/DD (SPD),
BPR&D, MHA,
New Delhi
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Volume 67, Number 2 | April-June, 2020

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since 1954. It is the flagship journal of Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPR&D),
MHA, which is published every quarter of the year. It is circulated through hard copy as well
as e-book format. It is circulated to Interpol countries and other parts of the world. IPJ is peer
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security and allied subjects. Over the years it has evolved as academic journal of the Indian
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rights, intelligence, corruption, terrorism and counter terrorism, community policing and
allied subjects can be submitted.
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paper/article should be original and have not been published in any journal. A brief detail
about author should also be submitted. The paper can be submitted through
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