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{{Short description|Indian police officer and politician}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2025}}
{{Use Indian English|date=July 2025}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| office = [[Member of Parliament]], [[Rajya Sabha]]
| term_start = 3 April 2026
| term_end1 =
| predecessor = [[Saket Gokhale]]
| successor =
| constituency = [[List of Rajya Sabha members from West Bengal|West Bengal]]
| office2 = [[West Bengal Police|Director General of West Bengal Police]]
| status2 = Acting
| term_start2 = 16 July 2024
| term_end2 = 31 January 2026
| education = [[Bachelor of Engineering|B.E.]]
| alma_mater = [[Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee]]
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1966|1|31}}
| birth_place = [[Chandausi]], [[Uttar Pradesh]], India
| module = {{Infobox police officer
| embed = yes
| badge_number=19891041
| service=
| service_years=1990–2026
| rank= [[Director General of Police (India)|Director General]]
| batch= 1989
| cadre= West Bengal
| awards=
{{plainlist|
* [[File:IND President's Police Medal for Distinguished Service.svg|20px]] [[President's Police Medal for Distinguished Service]]
* [[File:IND_Police_Medal_for_Meritorious_Service.png|20px]] [[Orders, decorations, and medals of India#Police awards|Police Medal of Meritious Service]]
* [[File:IND_50th_Anniversary_Independence_medal.svg|20px]] [[50th Independence Anniversary Medal]]
* [[File:75yearmedal.svg|20px]] [[75th Independence Anniversary Medal]]
}}
| department=[[Kolkata Police]]<br/>[[West Bengal Police]]
| allegiance = {{IND}}
| branch =[[Kolkata Police]]<br/>[[West Bengal Police]]
| status = Active
}}
| honorific_suffix = [[President's Police Medal|PPM]] [[Indian Police Service|IPS]]
| office5 = Police Commissioner of Kolkata
| term_start5 = 21 May 2016
| term_end5 = 19 February 2019
| predecessor5 = [[Soumen Mitra]]
| successor5 = [[Anuj Sharma (IPS)|Anuj Sharma]]
| term_start6 = 14 February 2016
| term_end6 = 12 April 2016
| predecessor6 = [[Surajit Kar Purkayastha]]
| successor6 = Soumen Mitra
| order5 = 37th
| office3 = [[Additional Chief Secretary|Additional Chief Secretary, Dept of I&T, Govt. of West Bengal]]
| appointer3 = Mamata Banerjee
| predecessor3 = Debasis Sen
| successor3 = Anup Kumar Aggarwal
| term_start3 = 25 December 2019
| term_end3 = 4 June 2025
| party = [[All India Trinamool Congress]]
}}

'''Rajeev Kumar''' (born 31 January 1966) [[Indian Police Service|IPS]] PPM is a retired Indian police officer and bureaucrat, who is currently serving as a member of the [[Rajya Sabha]] from [[West Bengal]] as a [[All India Trinamool Congress]] member.<ref>{{cite web |title=Ex-Bengal DGP, SC advocate, actor among 4 TMC nominees for RS polls |url=https://www.ptinews.com/story/national/ex-bengal-dgp-sc-advocate-actor-among-4-tmc-nominees-for-rs-polls/3420691 |publisher=Press Trust of India |date=27 February 2026 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Babul Supriyo, Ex-DGP Rajeev Kumar among 4 candidates named by TMC for Rajya Sabha polls |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/babul-supriyo-ex-dgp-rajeev-kumar-among-4-candidates-named-by-tmc-for-rajya-sabha-polls-101772209977260.html |publisher=Hindustan Times |date=27 February 2026 }}</ref> He served as the [[West Bengal Police|Director General of West Bengal Police]], from July 2024 till January 2026.<ref>{{Cite web |last=PTI |date=2024-07-15 |title=Bengal govt reinstates Rajeev Kumar as DGP |url=https://theprint.in/india/bengal-govt-reinstates-rajeev-kumar-as-dgp/2175763/ |access-date=2024-07-15 |website=ThePrint |language=en-US}}</ref> Previously he served in the same post from December 2023 until was removed by [[Election Commission of India]] in March 2024. Prior to his office, he also served as [[Additional Chief Secretary]] in [[Information technology in India|Information and Technology Department]] of the [[Government of West Bengal]] from December 2019 to June 2025.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Rajeev Kumar principal secretary in IT |url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/west-bengal/rajeev-kumar-principal-secretary-in-it/cid/1730564 |access-date=2023-12-27 |website=www.telegraphindia.com |language=en}}</ref>

==Early life==
===Birth and education===
Kumar is from [[Chandausi]] [[Uttar Pradesh]]. He earned a [[Bachelor of Engineering]] in Computer Science from the University of Roorkee (now [[IIT Roorkee|IIT-Roorkee]]).<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-02-05 |title=The importance of being IPS officer Rajeev Kumar — for either side |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/india/the-importance-of-being-ips-officer-rajeev-kumar-for-either-side-mamata-banerjee-chit-fund-scams-5569213/ |access-date=2023-12-27 |website=The Indian Express |language=en}}</ref>
Kumar is the grandson of Moradabad's Gandhi and Professor Ramsaran (Ex [[Member of Parliament]] from [[Moradabad Lok Sabha constituency|Moradabad]]) and son of Professor Anand Kumar of SM Degree College, Chandausi, Moradabad.
Kumar belongs to [[Bania (caste)|Bania]] community.<ref>{{cite news |title= Sambhal: चंदौसी के राजीव कुमार पश्चिम बंगाल के नए डीजीपी, सीएम ममता के हैं विश्वासपात्र|url=https://www.amarujala.com/uttar-pradesh/sambhal/rajeev-kumar-of-chandausi-becomes-the-new-dgp-of-west-bengal-sambhal-news-c-275-1-smbd1030-6332-2023-12-28|access-date= 17 October 2025|work= [[Amar Ujala]]|date= 28 December 2023}}</ref>

===Early police career===
Kumar joined the Indian police service in 1989 from the Uttar Pradesh cadre. He also served as the [[Bidhannagar Police Commissionerate|Bidhannagar Police Commissioner]] and the Director of [[Special Task Force (India)|Special Task Force]] (STF), [[Kolkata Police]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-05-22 |title=Rajeev Kumar reinstated as the Kolkata Police Chief after Mamata's return |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/rajeev-kumar-reinstated-as-kolkata-police-chief-after-mamatas-return-2812729/ |access-date=2023-12-27 |website=The Indian Express |language=en}}</ref>

==Kolkata Police (2016–2019)==

He was briefly appointed as the [[Police Commissioner of Kolkata|Kolkata Police Commissioner]] from 14 February 2016 to 12 April 2016. In the [[2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2016 elections in West Bengal]], he was removed from the post by the [[Election Commission of India]]. He was later reinstated on 21 May 2016 and served until 19 February 2019.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Rajeev Kumar Appointed As New Kolkata Police Commissioner |url=https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/rajeev-kumar-appointed-as-new-kolkata-police-commissioner-1271592 |access-date=2023-12-27 |website=NDTV.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=CBI Interrogates Kolkata Police Chief Rajeev Kumar in Shillong |url=https://thewire.in/government/cbi-interrogates-kolkata-police-chief-rajeev-kumar-in-shillong |access-date=2023-12-27 |website=The Wire}}</ref>

==Later career==
He was the Additional Director of [[CID West Bengal|Criminal Investigation Department, West Bengal]] from 20 February 2019 until December 2019. He was then promoted to Principal Secretary of the Department of Information Technology, West Bengal until 2023.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-03-02 |title=After Bengal CID, former Kolkata top cop Rajeev Kumar gets charge of STF |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/after-bengal-cid-former-kolkata-top-cop-rajeev-kumar-gets-charge-of-stf/story-UvnmWN20loHkGUXgJZwEtI.html |access-date=2023-12-27 |website=Hindustan Times |language=en}}</ref>

He was promoted to acting Director General of West Bengal Police on 31 December 2023 on the superannuation of [[Manoj Malaviya]] batch of 1988 IPS.{{citation needed|date=July 2025}} He retired on 31 January 2026.

==Political career==
On 27 February 2026, Kumar was announced as the Trinamool Congress party candidate from West Bengal for the [[2026 Rajya Sabha elections]] to be held on 16 March.<ref>{{cite web |title=Ex-Bengal DGP, SC advocate, actor among 4 TMC nominees for RS polls |url=https://www.ptinews.com/story/national/ex-bengal-dgp-sc-advocate-actor-among-4-tmc-nominees-for-rs-polls/3420691 |publisher=Press Trust of India |date=27 February 2026 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Babul Supriyo, Ex-DGP Rajeev Kumar among 4 candidates named by TMC for Rajya Sabha polls |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/babul-supriyo-ex-dgp-rajeev-kumar-among-4-candidates-named-by-tmc-for-rajya-sabha-polls-101772209977260.html |publisher=Hindustan Times |date=27 February 2026 }}</ref> He was sworn in as the [[Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha|Member of Parliament]] of Rajya Sabha on 6 April 2026.<ref name="CSR_RajeevKumar_2026">{{cite web |last=The CSR Journal |title=Rajeev Kumar files Rajya Sabha nomination with cryptic message |url=https://thecsrjournal.in |website=The CSR Journal |date=14 March 2026 |access-date=11 April 2026}}</ref>

==Controversies==
In 2019, Kumar was accused by the [[Central Bureau of Investigation|CBI]] in the Supreme Court of tampering with electronic evidence related to the [[Saradha Group financial scandal|Saradha chit-fund case]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=2021-02-23 |title=Saradha chit fund scam: CBI, West Bengal govt. spar over contempt case |language=en-IN |work=The Hindu |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/kolkata/saradha-chit-fund-scam-sc-defers-hearing-on-cbi-plea-to-quiz-wb-ex-police-commissioner-rajeev-kumar/article33912334.ece |access-date=2023-12-27 |issn=0971-751X}}</ref> Though there is no accurate evidence against him. [https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/kumar-gets-arrest-shield-but-cant-step-out-of-home/articleshow/69589518.cms] estimated 1.8 million depositors from [[West Bengal]], [[Assam]], [[Chhattisgarh]], [[Jharkhand]] and [[Odisha]] contributed an estimated Rs. 2,460 crore to the case.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Rajeev Kumar: Kolkata Police chief who was once close to being moved to insignificant post by Mamata Banerjee |url=https://www.wionews.com/india-news/mamata-turns-street-fighter-for-cop-she-once-refused-to-trust-195343 |access-date=2023-12-27 |website=WION |language=en-us}}</ref> It was discovered in 2012 when depositors began reporting suspicious activity to the police.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Saradha probe: Very serious revelations in CBI report on former Kolkata police chief, says SC |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/saradha-probe-sc-says-very-very-serious-revelations-made-by-cbi-in-status-report-against-former-kolkata-police-chief-1486804-2019-03-26 |access-date=2023-12-27 |website=India Today |date=26 March 2019 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=PTI |date=2019-05-30 |title=Former Kolkata top cop Rajeev Kumar moves Calcutta High Court for quashing of CBI notice |url=https://theprint.in/india/former-kolkata-top-cop-rajeev-kumar-moves-calcutta-high-court-for-quashing-of-cbi-notice/243005/ |access-date=2023-12-27 |website=ThePrint |language=en-US}}</ref>

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[[Category:IIT Roorkee alumni]]
[[Category:People charged with fraud]]
[[Category:Indian police chiefs]]
[[Category:1966 births]]
[[Category:21st-century Indian politicians]]
[[Category:Trinamool Congress politicians from Uttar Pradesh]]
[[Category:Rajya Sabha members from West Bengal]]

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