Mukesh Singh & Anupama Pandey

Mukesh Singh is an Indian Police Service officer of the Jammu and Kashmir cadre. He is a BTech in civil engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (Delhi). He joined the Indian Police Service in 1996 and has headed several sensitive assignments as district superintendent of police at Reasi, Pulwama, Poonch and Jammu during the peak of terror activities. He was a part of the core team that set up the National Investigation Agency, which is now the premier counterterrorist investigation agency in the country. He served there in the capacity of superintendent of police, deputy inspector general and inspector general. He currently heads the police of Jammu Province as the additional director general of police. During his service, Mukesh has always been at the forefront of counterterror operations, be it in the field in Jammu and Kashmir in various capacities or at the National Investigation Agency, where he investigated some of the most high-profile cases. He has co-authored a book, Police Operations, and has also co-published three papers: ?Investigation of Encounter Killings? (2016); ?Police Operations? (2015) and ?Conducting an Anti-Terrorist Operation? (2014). Anupama Pandey studied at some of the premier institutes of India and worked in the development, private and government sectors, before stepping down from the position of state nodal officer at Mission Swaraj, Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi, to pursue her passion. A traveller at heart and a person who enjoys both solitude and the company of others, she is a trained relationship and life coach, and heads anupamapandey.com. Curse of the Pir is her first book.