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Roopa Divakar Moudgil is an Indian Police Service officer belonging to the Karnataka cadre. She is from the 2000 officers' batch of the Indian Police Service and is the Inspector General of Police of the Karnataka State Police.
She was also posted as Additional Commandant General, Home Guards & Ex-Officio Additional Director, Civil Defense, commissioner for traffic and road safety, and Deputy Inspector General of Prisons in Karnataka.
She is also a playback singer in Kannada cinemas and has sung in the Kannada film Bayalaatada Bheemanna, starring Ravichandran.
Early life and education
D. Roopa was born in Davanagere. Her father is J. S. Diwakar, a retired engineer, and he mother is Hemavathi. She has one younger sister, Rohini Divakar, a Joint Commissioner of Income Tax in the Indian Revenue Service.
Roopa graduated from Kuvempu University and completed a Masters of Arts in Psychology from Bangalore University. Roopa is well-versed in Hindustani Classical music and is a trained Bharatnatyam dancer. She released a music video on 2018's International Women's Day.
In 2003, Roopa married Munish Moudgil, an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and is an Indian Administrative Service officer. They have two children.
Career
Roopa ranked as 43rd out of 2000 in the Union Public Service Commission examinations.
Soon after the training, Roopa was posted as Superintendent of police in the Dharwad district. She also had the same post in the Gadag district and the Yadgir district before moving to Bengaluru.
In 2007, she arrested then-Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister and former Union Minister Uma Bharati. In 2008, she arrested Yavagal, an ex-minister. During the case, she suspended her subordinate, Deputy Superintendent Masooti, for being in continuous contact with Yavagal.
She became the first female police officer to head the Cyber-Crime police station/division in 2013. While she was the DCP, City Armed Reserve in Bengaluru, she had withdrawn 216 excess gunmen kept unauthorized by 81 politicians. She also had withdrawn 8 new and unauthorized SUVs of the department that remained with the ex-Chief Minister of Karnataka.
In July 2017, Roopa was transferred from her post as Deputy Inspector General Prisons, a post she took barely a month prior to the commissioner for traffic and road safety. Days after she found irregularities inside the jail, she alleged that AIADMK (Amma) general secretary V K Sasikala was enjoying VIP treatment at Parappana Agrahara central prison. In a report, she submitted to the Home Department and Director General of Police (DGP) for Prison Department H N Sathyanarayana Rao, Deputy Inspector General (Prisons) Roopa claimed that Sasikala was being provided with VIP treatment in jail, a whole corridor comprising five cells had been set aside for her private use, an exclusive kitchen to cook meals for her and the relaxed visiting hours in exchange for a Rs 2-crore bribe to jail officials.
In January 2019, the high-level probe led by retired IAS officer Vinay Kumar, an independent inquiry committee, that inquired into this allegations of irregularities had found and confirmed "serious lapses" and "falsification of records" on the part of senior prison officials in extending special treatment to V.K. Sasikala. It further vindicated her stand, and a case has been registered in Anti-Corruption Bureau(ACB) based on her report. Inquiry committee also found that prison officials were aware that the cells were provided to V.K. Sasikala for private use.
She was selected by Israel Foreign Ministry to be part of "Discover Israel delegation" to promote ties between the two countries. She has been transferred 41 times in 17 years until 2017, has faced privilege motions for naming politicians in FIRs. She is also currently facing a defamation case seeking ₹ 20 crore by DGP Satyanarayana. This case was quashed by the Karnataka High Court in June 2022.
A Karnataka court has directed the police to file a criminal defamation case against IPS officer D Roopa Moudgil for allegedly posting objectionable pictures and videos of IAS officer Rohini Sindhuri, and for accusing her of unethical practices.
Awards
She was awarded the President's Police Medal for Meritorious Service in 2016.
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