UPSC TOPPER 2007 Sujit Kumar , IPS
As a personal security officer, he has provided shield to
many an IPS officers. Now, with more than seven years of service still left,
havildar Bhagwan Singh, an instructor in BMP-5 in Patna, hopes to stand guard to
his son Sujit Kumar Singh, who has cracked the civil services this year.
Hailing from Nad, a township in Rohtas, where matriculates
are worshipped, Sujit (25) has, in a way, broken the family tradition. Unlike
his father, who is a matriculate, mother Suryakanti Devi and sister Binu, both
non-matric, Sujit not only did graduation (from Hindu College, New Delhi), but
also leapfrogged into the IPS (all-India rank 132) — a position his uncles would
envy.
While one of the uncles, Ram Dayal Singh, is an assistant
sub-inspector of police (posted in Konch, Gaya), Rajeshwar Singh is a
sub-inspector in the BSF (in Tripura), Uday Singh another of Sujit's uncle is an
airman in the Indian Air Force while yet another uncle, Ashok Singh, has retired
as an Army havildar.
Talking to HT, an ebullient Singh, whose son is expected to
arrive in Patna from the national capital on Wednesday, said: "My son has been
very different right from his childhood. He was a bookworm, who used to study
for 16-18 hours a day. Even during the festival of Holi, when all children would
play with colours, Sujit sat with his best companion — books."
