| Raman Sriwastaw | |
| Service: | Indian Police Service |
| Rank: | former Director General of Border Security Force |
Raman Srivastava was a 1973 batch Indian Police Service officer who served as the Director general of police in Kerala Police from February 2005 till November 2008.[1] He is also a former Director General of the Border Security Force (BSF), the border patrol agency of the Government of India.[2] [3]
Srivastava was a 1973 batch IPS officer of the Kerala cadre. Before becoming Director General of BSF, he was Special Secretary (Internal Security) in the Ministry of Home Affairs.[4] [5] Before that, he served as Director General of Police of Kerala and occupied various policing positions in a 33 year career.[6] He also maintained very cordial relations with all parties and factions, notably K. Karunakaran, Oommen Chandy and Pinarayi Vijayan.[7] In 2017, he was appointed by Pinarayi Vijayan as a special police advisor of the rank of the Chief Secretary.[8]
He was caught in a controversy following his alleged involvement in the ISRO spy ring case in the 1990s which was obviously a fake allegation on the part of other Indian Police Service officers investigating the case.[9] [10] Later, Supreme Court of India itself dismissed the case for being vague and baseless. He also dragged serious controversy over his alleged order resulting in the death of a 11-year-old girl named Sirajunnisa, during his tenure in the State of Kerala as the Deputy Inspector General of Police.[11]