A week after the horrific Pune Porsche accident case, the government of Maharashtra mandated IPS Amitesh Kumar (1995-batch Maharashtra cadre), presently Commissioner of Pune Police, to investigate the tragic accident which cost the life of a young woman and a man by an under-age driver who was under the influence of alcohol.
Mr. Amitesh Kumar graduated with a degree in Economics from St. Stephen’s College in Delhi and has a post-graduate degree in Cyberlaw. In 1995, Amitesh Kumar cracked the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) with an impressive rank of 59. In his first posting, he was sent to the Solapur district of Maharashtra.
In 1997, he became an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ACP) and was thereafter appointed as Aurangabad Rural’s Superintendent of Police. He then became Nagpur’s Deputy Commissioner. Officer Amitesh Kumar had served as the Special Inspector General of Police (Aurangabad region) and Additional Commissioner of Police (ATS). Amitesh Kumar also revealed how the Naxalites were smuggling firearms.
In 2005 and 2007, he made it to the headlines when he got assigned to Nagpur as DCP and made waves in the cricket world during the West Indies tour of India.