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Shashi Tharoor Mourns Kerala-Born Odisha IPS Officer Shefeen Ahamed

Shashi Tharoor Mourns Kerala-Born Odisha IPS Officer Shefeen Ahamed
Tharoor mourns Kerala-born Odisha IPS officer Shefeen Ahamed who lost cancer battle · thehansindia.com

Shefeen Ahamed was a senior police officer from Kerala who worked in Odisha.

He died at age 50 after being ill with cancer for a long time.

He passed away in a hospital in Hyderabad while receiving treatment.

At the time, he was an Inspector General of Police in Odisha's Crime Branch.

Shashi Tharoor knew him from his time working in Thiruvananthapuram.

Tharoor said Ahamed was kind, smart, polite and modest.

Ahamed joined the Indian Police Service in 2003 and worked in policing for more than 20 years.

Odisha Police also remembered him for his honesty, dedication and cybercrime work.

Key facts

Age
50
Police position
Inspector General of Police, CID-Crime Branch, Odisha
Cause of death
Prolonged battle with cancer
Place of death
A private hospital in Hyderabad
IPS batch
2003
Key expertise
Cybercrime investigation and Crime Branch operations
Education
College of Engineering, Trivandrum

Quotes

Shashi Tharoor

Former Union Minister and Congress Lok Sabha member from Thiruvananthapuram

“Though he returned to his home cadre in Odisha, he never quite left Thiruvananthapuram behind, and stayed in touch over the years. That he should be taken from us so young, and in the city he loved, makes this loss all the harder to bear.”
thehansindia.com
“I came to know Shefeen during his deputation to Kerala, when he served as Rural SP of Thiruvananthapuram. He was a thoughtful, unfailingly courteous officer with a fine mind, who wore his competence lightly.”
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