IPS officer Sanjukta Parashar, known as ‘Iron Lady of Assam’, has beco

IPS officer Sanjukta Parashar, known as ‘Iron Lady of Assam’, has become the first woman officer to lead CRPF’s jungle warfare commando unit, CoBRA.

Parashar, a 2006-batch officer of the Assam-Meghalaya cadre, earned the moniker of Iron Lady after leading the crackdown against militant outfit National Democratic Front of Bodoland in 2013-14 as the then Sonitpur SP.

Parashar, who is from Assam, has served both in her cadre as well as in NIA, specialising in key counter-terror investigations. She was heading the CID wing of Assam Police before being appointed IG, CoBRA.

She will head CoBRA at a time when the force is engaged in holding and securing large forest areas, mostly in Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand, reclaimed from Naxals. These operations played a key role in almost eliminating Left-wing extremism in the country by March 2026.

IPS officer Sanjukta Parashar, known as ‘Iron Lady of Assam’, has become the first woman officer to

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