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Amit Lodha (
Hindi
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: अमित लोढ़ा) (born 22 February 1974) is a 1998 batch Indian Police Service
The Indian Police Service (IPS) is a civil service under the All India Services. It replaced the Indian Imperial Police in 1948, a year after India became Partition of India, independent from the British Empire.
Along with the Indian Admini ...
(IPS) officer of Bihar
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Cadre, currently serving as Additional Director General of State Crime Record Bureau, assigned at Bihar
Bihar ( ) is a states and union territories of India, state in Eastern India. It is the list of states and union territories of India by population, second largest state by population, the List of states and union territories of India by are ...
. He has received several awards for his work. He is known for his book '' Bihar Diaries: The True Story of How Bihar's Most Dangerous Criminal Was Caught.'' The web series '' Khakee: The Bihar Chapter'' on Netflix
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is based on that book.
Early life and career
Lodha is a 1995 alumnus ofIIT Delhi
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He joined the IPS in 1998. During his District Training, he was trained under IPS Gupteshwar Pandey. After the infamous Manikpur (Manipur) Village Massacre in 2006, Amit Lodha was posted in the newly created, Sheikhpura District
Sheikhpura district is one of the thirty-eight districts in Bihar, India and a part of the Munger division with Sheikhpura as its administrative headquarters. Established on 31 July 1994 from the Munger district due to political efforts by ...
of Bihar in 2006 by the then CM Nitish Kumar. He was instrumental in the nabbing and crackdown of Politically protected Ashok Mahto Gang during his tenure there. Lodha used his expertise in technology as an engineer to set-up Call Observation and Parallel Listening for members of the gang. During his investigation and intelligence gathering he discovered political backing by JDU leaders and party president Rajiv Ranjan Singh, Randhir Kumar Soni the then MLA of Sheikhpura to the Ashok Mahto Gang. Mahto was arrested in 2006, while he was travelling to court; Bihar Military Police (BMP) officers carried out a procession in which Mahto, half-naked and bleeding, was dressed in garland of slippers. This incident proved controversial and the region's backward castes saw it as a punishment to the gangster for opposing Bhumihars. Mahto enjoyed considerable support among the backward classes; his public humiliation prompted questions such as; "Can the police humiliate an upper-caste gangster in a similar manner?".
Amit Lodha was promoted to Deputy Inspector General of Police, CID in 2013.
Amit was also posted as DIG and later promoted to IG in Border Security Force
The Border Security Force (BSF) is a central armed police force in India under the Ministry of Home Affairs. It is responsible for guarding India’s borders with Pakistan and Bangladesh. It was formed in the wake of the Indo-Pak War of 196 ...
on central deputation in 2019.
In March 2025, he was promoted to the rank of Additional Director General of Police
The Additional Director General of Police (Addl. DGP) is a senior rank in the Indian Police Service (IPS). It is the second-highest rank in the state police forces of India, below the Director General of Police (DGP) and above the Inspector Gener ...
. As of June 2025, Lodha is an Additional Director General of Police
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DGrank officer at the State Crime Records Bureau in Bihar Police.
Legal issues
In December 2022, Lodha was booked under several sections ofIndian Penal Code
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and Prevention of Corruption Act for entering a commercial deal with Netflix
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as a government servant and writing the book ''Bihar Diaries'' without taking prior permission or approval from the government. Lodha has mentioned that he has done nothing wrong. Controversy has also been created by the media that he was suspended but he has never been suspended, the government has also not released any statement regarding the suspension. He is still in service serving as Inspector General of Police, at State Crime Record Bureau, Bihar Police.
See also
* Ashok Mahto gang * Chandan Kushwaha * Rajo Singh * Anant Kumar SinghReferences
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