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Indian Police Service,1981 batch, was Director General, Bureau of Police Research and Development & National Crime Records Bureau. Former Commissioner, Pune, Chief of Maharashtra Prisons, Chief of Crime Branch Mumbai, also worked in CID & Central Bureau of Investigation.

First woman District Police Chief in Maharashtra (Aurangabad and Satara), Hubert H. Humphrey Fellow, 2001 (USA).

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Authored‘Leaves of Life’, ‘Inspector Chougule’ & ‘Madam Commissioner’.