The Tripura Government has started the process to pick up the new Director General of Police (DGP) as the incumbent officer Amitabh Ranjan is retiring next month. The state Government informed the Supreme Court that incumbent DGP assumed the charge on July 28, 2022 and was supposed to demit office on May 31 this year. The Government, in a reply to the Court on Tuesday said that it is adhering to apex court verdict on DGP appointment.    A bench comprising Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Sanjay Kumar was hearing a PIL filed by an NGO. A state Government counsel handed over a letter in a sealed cover to the bench and said the process for the appointment of a new DGP has been initiated on March 7. He said the state Government had been following the 2006 directives of the Supreme Court aside from the judgements that followed.