Chandigarh, March 18 -- The Centre has approved a one-year extension for Chandigarh senior superintendent of police (SSP) Kanwardeep Kaur. According to an order issued by the department of personnel and training (DoPT) on March 16, the ministry of home affairs' (MHA) proposal to extend Kanwardeep Kaur's deputation from the Punjab cadre to the cadre (Chandigarh segment) has been cleared by the appointments committee of the cabinet. While her initial three-year stint concluded on March 8, she will now remain at the helm of the UT's police force until March 2027.The post of the Chandigarh SSP is traditionally reserved for an IPS officer from the Punjab cadre, while the SSP, traffic, post is filled by an officer from the Haryana cadre. This arrangement is part of the power-sharing agreement between the two states in the UT administration. A 2013-batch officer, Kanwardeep Kaur took charge in March 2023 following a period of administrative friction. Her predecessor, Kuldeep Singh Chahal, was repatriated to Punjab prematurely in December 2022, months before his tenure ended, citing misconduct, a move that sparked a brief standoff between Punjab and the UT administration. Kanwardeep Kaur's leadership has been defined by her "frontline-first" approach during law-and-order crises, such as the Panjab University (PU) PU Bachao Morcha protests in October 2025 over Senate election delays. She engaged directly with student leaders to prevent violence while maintaining a firm stance on keeping police nakas (checkpoints) to curb outsider interference on the campus. During the 2024-25 farmer protests, she oversaw the sensitive Chandigarh-Mohali borders. However, her tenure has not been without challenges, most notably the IPS officer Y Puran Kumar suicide case in October 2025. The case sparked a standoff between the UT Police and the deceased officer's family, led by his wife, IAS officer Amneet P Kumar. The SSP faced pressure when Amneet P Kumar accused the Chandigarh Police of diluting the FIR....