Mumbai's top cop Ahmad Javed is new envoy to Saudi Arabia

December 11, 2015 22:00

Mumbai police commissioner Ahmad Javed has been appointed India's next envoy to Saudi Arabia.

The kingdom has given its consent to accept him as the envoy, a diplomatic requirement before the sending-country makes the announcement, sources told the Hindustan Times newspaper.

The Centre has been on the hunt to identify the right candidate to represent India in Saudi Arabia, the country with the largest Indian passport holders outside India.

But a shortage of senior Muslim officers in the Indian foreign services kept the search on for months to find a replacement for Hamid Ali Rao who retired as the country's envoy to Saudi Arabia in April 2015.

Rao had taken up the assignment in September 2011.

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