Sanjukta Parashar-IPS whom Bodo militants fear

Sanjukta Parashar, an IPS officer of the 2006 batch, was first posted as the Assistant Commandant of Makum in 2008. However, within hours, she was dispatched to Udalguri - to control ethnic clashes between Bodo and illegal Bangladeshi migrants.
Since then she has been leading the anti-Bodo militant operations in Sonitpur district of Assam. This mother of a 2-year-old boy who leads her team, a Kalashnikov in hand, through Assam's treacherous terrains in anti-insurgency operations.
She completed her graduation in Political Science from the Indraprastha College for Women in New Delhi and later went to the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) for her Masters, M.Phil and Ph.D. in International Relations. Parashar ranked 85th in the prestigious Union Public Service Commission (UPSC), the civil services examinations, and chose police service.