srinagar igp charu sinha an ips officer of the 1996 batch from the telangana cadre will now head the srinagar sector for crpf as inspectorgeneral the first woman to do so in kashmir she replaces ig rajesh kumar and will assume command next weekkashmir is not the first terroraffected place sinha has served in she is currently posted as the crpf ig heading jammu sector and was previously the crpf ig heading bihar sector charu sinha is the first woman crpf ig to command sectors for antinaxal operations in bihar and antiterrorist operations in jammu prior to being deputed to the crpf she handled different positions in telangana and andhra pradeshshe was also posted as sp intelligence security wing and then as sp of nizamabad district in telangana after this posting i went to the united nations mission in kosovo on deputation for peacekeeping in an area torn by conflict between albanian muslims and christian serbs wherein i handled the watch unit on ramush haradinaj pm of kosovo who was being tried for war crimes she said haradinaj was acquittedcharu told toi that she graduated in english literature history and political science from st francis college for women in hyderabad and did her postgraduation in political science from hyderabad central universityshe has also served as director anticorruption bureau telangana and as dig for anantapur range consisting of anantapur chittoor and tirupati districts in andhra pradesh handling extremely violent factional feuds communalism and other issues in the region