India’s first woman DGP Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya passed away in Mumbai

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On August 26, 2019, India’s first woman Director General of Police (DGP), Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya, passed away in Mumbai, Maharashtra after an illness.
She was born in Himachal Pradesh and lived in Amritsar, Punjab and Delhi. She was the second woman IPS (Indian Police Service) officer of India after Kiran Bedi.
She is a 1973 batch IPS officer.
She was appointed the DGP of Uttarakhand in the year 2004 and retired as the DGP on October 31, 2007.
She also contested in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections on an Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) ticket from Haridwar constituency. But failed to win.
She was awarded President’s Medal for long and meritorious services in 1989, President’s Medal for distinguished services in 1997 and Rajiv Gandhi Award in 2004 for excellent all-round performance and as an outstanding woman achiever.