IPS officer Sonia Narang deputed as SP, National Investigation Agency

Bengaluru: The city is set to lose one of its finest officers to the national capital. One of Bengaluru’s smartest female cops who has built up a reputation as a no-nonsense officer who slapped a politician for crossing the line, and blew the lid off a corruption scam in the Lokayukta that led to the resignation of former Lokayukta Justice Bhaskar Rao, is off to greener pastures.

Deputy Inspector General of Police, Criminal Investigation Department, Sonia Narang, who was in the limelight in recent months for her pursuit of wrong-doers in the shocking Pre-University question paper scam, is being sent on Central deputation for four years and posted as Superintendent of Police, National Investigation Agency (NIA) New Delhi.

Sources in the Ministry of Home Affairs told Deccan Chronicle that the lady IPS officer of the 2002 batch, had applied for a Central deputation and will fill a vacancy that has come for an SP in the NIA.

Ms Narang was taken completely by surprise when DC called her and told her what we had heard. She said she wasn't "aware of her posting to the NIA". In January this year, she was promoted as DIG and posted to the CID and has been in the news for her arrest of the 11 accused in the PU scam.