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Former Punjab DGP KPS Gill passes away

| | May 26, 2017, at 10:21 pm
New Delhi, May 26 (IBNS): Former Punjab DGP KPSGill pased away on Friday. He was 82.

According to reports, he died at a hospital in Delhi.

In his career, the top cop had served twice as the DGP of Punjab.

He was credited with having brought the Punjab insurgency under control.

Gill retired from the Indian Police Service in 1995.

Gill had served as consultant on counter-terrorism, president of the Institute for Conflict Management and president of the Indian Hockey Federation (IHF).

He received a Padma Shri award, India's fourth-highest civilian honour, in 1989 for his work in the civil service.

 

Image: Indian National Congress Punjab Facebook page

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