J. N. Saksena
Indian police officer
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Born | India |
Died | 9 December 2010 |
Occupation | Police official |
Awards | Padma Shri |
Jitendra Narain Saksena was an Indian Police official, known for his contributions in combating militancy in Kashmir during late Eighties and early Nineties.[1] He was the Director General of Police of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir from December 1989 to January 1992.[2] He was reportedly targeted by the militants and was injured by a bomb blast that took place at his office on 24 January 1992,[3][4] injuring four other senior police officials as well.[5] The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the Padma Shri in 1992.[6] He died on 9 December 2010.[5]
See also
References
- ^ "Former DGP J N Saksena passes away". Greater Kashmir. 12 December 2010. Retrieved 21 October 2015.
- ^ "Directors General". Jammu and Kashmir Police. 2015. Retrieved 21 October 2015.
- ^ N. S Saksena (2014). India Towards Anarchy (1967-1992). Abhinav Publications. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 21 October 2015.
- ^ S. K. Ghosh (1995). Terrorism, World Under Siege. APH Publishing. p. 669. ISBN 9788170246657. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 21 October 2015.
- ^ a b "Tributes paid to former DGP J. N. Saxena". Scoop News. 11 December 2010. Retrieved 21 October 2015.
- ^ "Padma Awards" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 October 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
Further reading
- Press Council of India (January 1991). Crisis and Credibility: Report of the Press Council of India - Interview. Lancer Publishers. p. 264. ISBN 9788170621522.
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Recipients of Padma Shri in Civil Service
- S. K. Dey (1954)
- Apa Pant (1954)
- Tarlok Singh (1954)
- S. P. P. Thorat (1954)
- Kewal Singh (1955)
- Gurbaksh Singh Dhillon (1957)
- Mathew Kandathil Mathulla (1959)
- Onkar Srinivasa Murthy (1959)
- Nuthakki Bhanu Prasad (1960)
- Bishnupada Mukerjee (1962)
- Challagalla Narasimham (1962)
- P. K. Banerjee (1963)
- N. G. Krishna Murti (1963)
- Surinder Singh Bedi (1966)
- Sanganbasappa Mallangouda Patil (1966)
- Sardar Mohan Singh (1966)
- Kiran Chandra Banerjee (1967)
- Jehangir Shapurji Bhownagary (1968)
- Krishna Swaroop Mullick (1968)
- Chand Chhabra (1969)
- Kumar Nandan Prasad (1969)
- Sunil Kumar Bhattacharya (1970)
- Jagmohan (1971)
- Himangshu Mohan Choudhury (1972)
- Brajbir Saran Das (1972)
- B. D. Pande (1972)
- Ranjit Singh Sarkaria (1972)
- V. Krishnamurthy (1973)
- Syed Zahoor Qasim (1974)
- Ajit Chandra Chatterjee (1975)
- Krishna Prasad Dar (1975)
- Pessie Madan (1975)
- Arjan Singh (1975)
- V. S. Wakankar (1975)
- Thangam Philip (1976)
- Rangaswamy Narasimhan (1977)
- Paul Pothen (1977)
- B. V. Raju (1977)
- Madhav Gadgil (1981)
- Mohamed Zainuddin Juvale (1981)
- Narla Tata Rao (1983)
- Mohammad Hamid Ansari (1984)
- Jasdev Singh (1985)
- Anil Kumar Lakhina (1986)
- Ramesh Inder Singh (1986)
- Mohammad Izhar Alam (1987)
- Gurbachan Jagat (1987)
- Avinder Singh Brar (1988)
- Sarbdeep Singh Virk (1988)
- Kanwar Pal Singh Gill (1989)
- Ved Marwah (1989)
- Achyut Madhav Gokhale (1990)
- Mehmoodur Rehman (1991)
- Prakash Singh (1991)
- Inderjit Kaur Barthakur (1992)
- M. K. Narayanan (1992)
- J. N. Saksena (1992)
- Oudh Narayan Shrivastava (1992)
- Chewang Phunsog (1992)
- Suryadevara Ramachandra Rao (1992)
- E. Sreedharan (2001)
- Mohammad Ahmed Zaki (2001)
- Syamal Bhushan Ghosh Dastidar (2009)
- D. R. Karthikeyan (2010)
- Pranab K. Sen (2011)
- Parveen Talha (2014)
- P. V. Rajaraman (2015)
- R. Vasudevan (2015)
- Kanwal Sibal (2017)
- T. K. Viswanathan (2017)
- S. S. Rathore (2018)
- S. Jaishankar (2019)
- (Nil) (2020)
- (Nil) (2021)
- Guruprasad Mohapatra (Posthumous) (2022)
- (Nil) (2023)
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