Geetha Johri is a retired officer of the

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 Raj. Along with the Indian Administ ...

. She was the first woman from Gujarat to become an IPS officer. Johri retired as

Gujarat Gujarat (, ) is a state along the western coast of India. Its coastline of about is the longest in the country, most of which lies on the Kathiawar peninsula. Gujarat is the fifth-largest Indian state by area, covering some ; and the nin ...

’s police chief and was the highest ranked women officer in the state. She became DIG in 2017, replacing

PP Pandey P.P. Pandey is a police officer in India. He was Director general of police (DGP) in Gujarat. Pandey was Joint Commissioner of Police in Ahmedabad when during the 2004 Ishrat Jahan case there were police encounters resulting in death. The Central ...

. Johri was the original investigator of the

death of Sohrabuddin Sheikh The Sohrabuddin Sheikh encounter case was a criminal case in the Gujarat state after the death of Sohrabuddin Anwarhussain Sheikh on November 26, 2005. A special CBI court acquitted all the 22 accused in the case in the alleged encounter kill ...

. Jorhi graduated in the 1982 batch. In 1992 she raided the Dariapur hideout of criminal

Abdul Latif Abdul Latif ( ar, عبد اللطيف, translit=ʻAbd al-Laṭīf) is a Muslim male given name and, in modern usage, surname. It is built from the Arabic words '' ʻabd'' and ''al-Laṭīf'', one of the names of God in the Qur'an, which gave rise t ...

. Latif escaped, but she arrested his gunman Sharif Khan. In 1998 she came into political conflict which resulted in her loss of opportunity. She was the investigator of the

2002 Gujarat riots The 2002 Gujarat riots, also known as the 2002 Gujarat violence, was a three-day period of inter-communal violence in the western Indian state of Gujarat. The burning of a train in Godhra on 27 February 2002, which caused the deaths of 58 Hin ...

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