D. Roopa

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D. Roopa
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Born
Roopa Divakar Moudgil

Davanagere, Karnataka
EducationMA (Psychology)
Alma mater Bangalore University
Occupation Inspector General of Police (Indian Police Service)

Roopa Divakar Moudgil is an Indian Police Service officer belonging to the cadre of Karnataka. She is from the 2000 officers' batch of the Indian Police Service and is the Inspector General of Police of the Karnataka State Police.

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Roopa has also been posted as Additional Commandant General, Home Guards and ex-officio Additional Director, Civil Defense, [1] commissioner for traffic and road safety, and Deputy Inspector General of Prisons in Karnataka. [2]

Roopa faces a criminal defamation case relating to accusations she made about a fellow officer. The dispute led to the Prime Minister’s office reprimanding Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai for his handling of the affair. [3]

Roopa has worked with Israel to promote ties between the two countries. [4] [ citation needed ]

Early life and education

D Roopa, with the then Prime Minister, V. P. Singh and Minister for Science & Technology Sri Raja Ramanna; as Best National Cadet Corps (NCC) cadet, represented Karnataka in New Delhi while in class 9. Pics of roopa 1318.jpg
D Roopa, with the then Prime Minister, V. P. Singh and Minister for Science & Technology Sri Raja Ramanna; as Best National Cadet Corps (NCC) cadet, represented Karnataka in New Delhi while in class 9.

D. Roopa was born in Davanagere. Her father is J. S. Diwakar, a retired engineer, and her mother is Hemavathi. [5] She has one younger sister, Rohini Divakar, a Joint Commissioner of Income Tax in the Indian Revenue Service. [6] [7] [8]

Roopa graduated from Kuvempu University and completed a Master of Arts in Psychology from Bangalore University. [9] [10] Roopa is a trained Bharatnatyam dancer. [10] She released a music video on 2018's International Women's Day. [11] [12]

In 2003, Roopa married Munish Moudgil, an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and an Indian Administrative Service officer. They have two children. [13]

Career

Roopa ranked 43rd out of 2,000 in the Union Public Service Commission examinations. [14]

Soon after training, Roopa was posted as Superintendent of police in the Dharwad district. She also held the same post in the Gadag district and the Yadgir district before moving to Bengaluru. [13]

In 2007, she arrested then-Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister and former Union Minister Uma Bharati. [9] In 2008, she arrested Yavagal, an ex-minister, and suspended her subordinate, Deputy Superintendent Masooti for continuously contacting Yavagal. [9] [15]

She became the first female police officer to head the Cyber-Crime police division in 2013. While she was the DCP, City Armed Reserve in Bengaluru, she withdrew 216 unauthorised orderlies from 81 politicians. [16] She also withdrew 8 new and unauthorized SUVs of the department that remained with the ex-Chief Minister of Karnataka. [17]

In July 2017, Roopa was transferred from her post as Deputy Inspector General Prisons, a post she took shortly before becoming the commissioner for traffic and road safety. Days after she found irregularities inside the jail, she alleged that AIADMK (Amma) general secretary V K Sasikala was receiving VIP treatment at Parappana Agrahara Central Prison. In a report submitted to the Home Department and Director General of Police (DGP) for Prison Department H N Sathyanarayana Rao, in which Deputy Inspector General (Prisons) Roopa claimed that Sasikala was being provided with VIP treatment in jail: a whole corridor comprising five cells had been set aside for her private use, there was an exclusive kitchen to cook meals for her, and visiting hours were relaxed in exchange for a Rs 2-crore bribe to jail officials. [18]

In January 2019, a high-level probe led by retired IAS officer Vinay Kumar, acting as an independent inquiry committee, looked into these allegations of irregularities and confirmed "serious lapses" and "falsification of records" on the part of senior prison officials in extending special treatment to V.K. Sasikala. A case was registered with Anti Corruption Bureau based on her report. The inquiry committee also found that prison officials were aware that the cells were provided to Sasikala for private use. [19]

She was selected by the Israel Foreign Ministry to be part of their Hasbara effort to "discover Israel delegation" to promote ties between the two countries. [4]

She had been transferred 41 times in 17 years until 2017 and has faced privilege motions for naming politicians in FIRs. She also faced a defamation case seeking Rs. 20 crore by DGP Satyanarayana, [20] This case was quashed by the Karnataka High Court in June 2022. [21]

A Karnataka court has directed the police to file a criminal defamation case against IPS officer D. Roopa Moudgil for allegedly posting objectionable pictures and videos of IAS officer Rohini Sindhuri and for accusing her of unethical practices. [22]

Awards

She was awarded the President's Police Medal for Meritorious Service in 2016. [23]

References

  1. ↑ "Karnataka: 36 IPS officers promoted". Deccan Chronicle . deccanchronicle. January 2018. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
  2. ↑ "DIG Roopa shifted to road safety and traffic for 'exposing VIP treatment' to Sasikala". timesofindia. timesofindia. Retrieved 17 July 2017.
  3. ↑ Staff, T. N. M. (26 March 2023). "Roopa IPS vs Rohini IAS: Karnataka court orders criminal defamation case on Roopa". The News Minute. Retrieved 28 January 2025.
  4. 1 2 "D Roopa Moudgil". Times of India. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
  5. ↑ "Sasikala bribegate: Seven things you did not know about DIG Roopa". Asianet News Network Pvt Ltd. Retrieved 4 October 2020.
  6. ↑ Aiyappa, Manu (3 January 2011). "Taking the ups and downs together". The Times of India. Retrieved 4 October 2020.
  7. ↑ Doval, Sharan Poovanna, Nikita (18 July 2017). "D. Roopa: the 'outsider' top cop of Karnataka". mint. Retrieved 4 October 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  8. ↑ "Provoke Lifestyle". Archived from the original on 31 October 2020. Retrieved 4 October 2020.
  9. 1 2 3 "D. Roopa: the 'outsider' top cop of Karnataka". livemint.com. livemint. 18 July 2017. Retrieved 18 July 2017.
  10. 1 2 ""I write, sing, shoot": Who is D Roopa?". babusofindia.com. babusofindia. Retrieved 18 July 2017.
  11. ↑ "Bengaluru: Tough cop D Roopa releases music video to inspire women". newindianexpress. newindianexpress. 10 March 2018. Retrieved 10 March 2018.
  12. ↑ "ದಿಟ್ಟ ಪ್ರತಿಭಾವಂತ ಪೊಲೀಸ್ ಅಧಿಕಾರಿ ರೂಪಾ ಮೌದ್ಗೀಲ್". kannada.oneindia.com. 8 March 2012. Retrieved 8 March 2012.
  13. 1 2 "Taking the ups and downs together". timesofindia. 3 January 2011. Retrieved 3 January 2011.
  14. ↑ "I write, sing, shoot Who is D Roopa? 10 things about this Karnataka cadre IPS". babusofindia. 18 July 2017.
  15. ↑ "Illegal convoy cars use by Yeddyurappa". praja.in. Archived from the original on 3 September 2017. Retrieved 24 February 2013.
  16. ↑ "The officer who took on her boss". The New Indian Express. 14 July 2017. Retrieved 4 March 2025.
  17. ↑ "Outlook Speakout is Women Empowerment". Outlook. Retrieved 22 September 2018.[ permanent dead link ]
  18. ↑ "Sasikala paid Rs-2 crore bribe for VIP treatment in jail say officials". Indian express. 17 July 2017.
  19. ↑ "Probe confirms Sasikala got special treatment". The Hindu News. The Hindu. 21 January 2019. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
  20. ↑ "Always followed rule of law, says Karnataka IPS officer D Roopa". theprint. theprint. 28 February 2018. Retrieved 28 February 2018.
  21. ↑ "Karnataka high court quashes case on IPS officer D Roopa". The Times of India. 16 June 2022. Retrieved 5 July 2022.
  22. ↑ "Roopa IPS vs Rohini IAS: Karnataka court orders criminal defamation case on Roopa". The News Minute. 26 March 2023. Retrieved 10 July 2023.
  23. ↑ "Police medals for 23 in State". The Hindu. The Hindu News. 25 January 2016. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
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