Hyderabad, Jan. 31 -- Senior Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Harish Kumar Gupta will take over as the new director general of police (DGP) of Andhra Pradesh on Friday, in place of DGP Ch Dwaraka Tirumala Rao who will be stepping down from the post on attaining the age of superannuation, a government order said on Thursday.

A 1992-batch IPS officer, Gupta is presently serving as the director general of vigilance and enforcement and he will hold the full additional charge of the head of the police forces (HoPF) from Friday.

Gupta was previously served the role of DGP when the Election Commission of India (ECI) appointed him to the post on May 6, 2024, replacing another senior IPS KV Rajendranath Reddy after complaints of alleged irreg...