On the occasion of Independence Day 2026, 21 CBI officers/employees were awarded the President’s Medal for Distinguished Service and the Medal for Meritorious Service.
21 CBI officers/officials were awarded the President’s Medal for Distinguished Service and the Meritorious Service Medal on the occasion of Independence Day-2026
Date: 14.08.2026
On the occasion of Independence Day-2026, 21 officers/officials of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) have been awarded the President’s Medal for Distinguished Service (PSM) and Medal for Meritorious Service (MSM).
The following 06 officers/officials have been awarded the President’s Medal for Distinguished Service:
President’s Medal for Distinguished Service
- Smt. Shobha Dutta, Assistant Inspector General of Police/Superintendent of Police (SP), CBI, Complaints & Coordination Cell, New Delhi
- Shri Manoj Banerjee, Additional Superintendent of Police, CBI, BSFB, Kolkata
- Mrs. Ginni Rana, Additional Superintendent of Police, CBI Academy, Ghaziabad
- Shri Sanjay Kumar Samal, Deputy Superintendent of Police, CBI, ACB, Visakhapatnam
- Shri Ramesh Chand, Assistant Sub-Inspector, CBI, Headquarters, New Delhi
- Shri Madan Lal Dhiman, Assistant Sub-Inspector, CBI, IPCU, New Delhi
The following 15 officers/employees have been awarded the Medal for Meritorious Service:
Medal for Meritorious Service
- Shri Brijesh Singh, Deputy Legal Adviser, CBI, ACB, Lucknow
- Mrs. Girish Joshi, Senior System Analyst, CBI, TAFSU, Mumbai
- Shri Manoj Kumar, Deputy Superintendent of Police, CBI, ACB, Delhi
- Shri Om Prakash Chandra, Deputy Superintendent of Police, CBI, SCB, Kolkata
- Shri Zaheer Akhtar Ansari, Deputy Superintendent of Police, CBI, ACB, Ghaziabad
- Shri Ashish Anand, Deputy Superintendent of Police, CBI, Complaint and Coordination Cell, New Delhi
- Smt. Sarita Yadav, Inspector, CBI, AC II, New Delhi
- Shri Roshan Kumar, Sub-Inspector, CBI, SU, New Delhi
- Shri Dilbar Singh Bisht, Assistant Sub-Inspector, CBI, SC-I, New Delhi
- Shri Balkar Singh, Head Constable, CBI, ACB, Chandigarh
- Shri Govind Singh Bisht, Head Constable, CBI, ACB, Lucknow
- Shri Kamlesh Kumar Gurjar, Head Constable, CBI, ACB, Jaipur
- Shri Pal Pandian R, Constable, CBI, ACB, Madurai
- Shri Ajay Kumar Singh, Constable, CBI, ACB, Patna
- Shri Kalyandurgam Samiullah, Constable, CBI, ACB, Bangalore
Photographs of the awardees are enclosed at Annexure ‘A’.
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