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NEW DELHI: Senior IPS officer Mohammed Jawed Akhtar, who was posted as DG, Fire Services, Civil Defence and Home Guards at the Centre, on Friday succumbed to Covid-19. He is the first serving DG-level officer to die of coronavirus infection. Akhtar, 59, was due to retire in July this year. As per a PTI report, he was admitted to a private hospital in Delhi after testing positive for Covid-19 and breathed his last early on Friday. Only last month, former DG of Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) Arun Choudhary had died of Covid. Even former CBI director Ranjit Sinha’s death last month is believed to have been caused by Covid-related complications. ....