The “Union Home Minister’s Medal for Excellence in Investigation” for the year 2020 was awarded to 121 police personnel, including 21 women officers on Wednesday. The Delhi Police six police officers were also among the awardees. 

Rajesh Deo, the Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Inspector Neeraj Kumar, Inspector Vijay Kumar Samaria, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Arvind Kumar, Inspector Satish Kumar and Sub-Inspector Vishnu Dutt Tiwari are Delhi Police officers who were awarded with Union Home Minister’s Medal for Excellence in Investigation on Wednesday.

Deo, the DCP, Crime Branch was awarded for his investigation into the triple murder case of senior citizen couple and their women nursing attendant took place inside their house in Vasant Apartment, Vasant Village in city.

The incident occurred in June 2019. The blind murder case was taken by the Crime Branch and within two days, through ‘Call Detail Record’ the accused Manoj Bhatt and Preeti Saharawat (which was daughter of a colleague of the deceased) were arrested from Gurugram.

At the instance of Manoj Bhatt, the clothes which were worn by Manoj Bhatt and Preeti Saharawat during the commission of crime, the knife and the screwdriver used in commission of crime were recovered. During police custody, at the instance of accused persons the entire robbed jewelry worth about 10 lakhs was recovered and taken into police possession through seizure memo. The daughter of the deceased later correctly identified the jewelry item in TIP.

Among the other personnel receiving these awards, 15 are from CBI, 10 each are from Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra Police, 8 are from Uttar Pradesh Police, 7 each are from Kerala and West Bengal Police, and the remaining from the other States/UTs. These include twenty one (21) women police officers.

 This medal was constituted in 2018 with the objective to promote high professional standards of investigation of crime and to recognize such Excellence in Investigation by investigating officers.