Surat’s lady IPS officer on Mt Everest expedition is safe:IMF

SURAT: Saroj Kumari, first lady IPS officer selected for scaling the world’s top mountain peak, is safe along with four of her team members.
The Indian Mountaineering Foundation (IMF) has confirmed that the Surat Rural Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP), Saroj Kumari is safe with his other four team members, who are on the expedition to the world’s highest mountain, Everest, to commemorate the golden jubilee of the first Indian ascent of to the summit in 1965.
The other officers joining Saroj are an IAS from Sikkim Ravindra Kumar, an IFS from Karnataka S Prabhakaran, an IAS from Rajasthan Vikram Jindal and an IPS from Maharashtra Suhail Sharma.
Following the powerful earthquake in Nepal and other Northern parts of the country of about 7.5 magnitude on Ritcher scale, the state police department in particular was worried about the well-being of the lone lady IPS officer who is selected for the expedition to the world’s highest mountain by the Central Government and the IMF.
Saroj Kumari, a native of Jhunjhunu in Rajasthan, reached Delhi with her fellow mountaineers on March 28. On March 29, the group left Delhi to reach the base camp in Nepal by the first week of April. The final summit attempt was to be made in the second week of May.
Official sources in IMF told TOI, “Saroj Kumari and her other four team mates are safe and secure and they are in the base camp on one of the mountain ranges off Nepal. The IMF is in constant touch with the teammates following the powerful earthquake”