Amulya Patnaik signs out as Delhi Police chief amid controversies

Delhi Commissioner of Police was accorded a grand farewell at Kingsway Camp in New Delhi on Saturday. (Express Photo: Amit Mehra)

A 1985-batch officer, Patnaik assumed the office on January 31, 2017. Perhaps one of the longest serving Delhi Police chief, he was a dark horse in the race for the top job. (Express Photo: Amit Mehra)

Amulya Patnaik's last few months as Commissioner of Police in the national capital were marred with allegations of "inaction" and "failure" to contain the communal violence that unleashed in northeast Delhi killing 42 so far and "inept" handling of the brutality on Jamia and JNU students. (Express Photo: Amit Mehra)

After over 20 police personnel, including senior officers, were manhandled at the Tis Hazari court in November last year, Patnaik's own men staged a dharna outside the old police headquarters against their top leadership for not standing by them. (Express Photo: Amit Mehra)

Patnaik, who was supposed to retire in January this year, was given a month's extension owing to Delhi Assembly elections. (Express Photo: Amit Mehra)

Under his tenure, chargesheets were also filed in the JNU sedition case, involving leader Kanhaiya Kumar, and 2014 Sunanda Pushkar case. (Express Photo: Amit Mehra)

Patnaik has a rare distinction of heading both the crime branch and the southern range as joint commissioner. During his 35 years of service, the IPS officer also served in the elite Special Protection Group and is credited with planning and managing the security of then prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. (Express Photo: Amit Mehra)

Some of the cases handled by him are those related to parcel bomb, the dreaded Asghar gang of dacoits and the Bombay blast accused. (Express Photo: Amit Mehra)