# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kanchan-chaudhary-bhattacharya
# Generated: 2026-08-15T10:44:17.049Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kanchan-chaudhary-bhattacharya"
name: "Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya"
slug: "kanchan-chaudhary-bhattacharya"
description: "Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya was the second woman officer in Indian Police Service (IPS) in India, the first being Kiran Bedi. A 1973 batch IPS officer, she was the first woman to become Director General of Police of a state and retired on 31 October 2007 after 33 years of service. She then turned to politics and ran as a candidate of Aam Aadmi Party from Haridwar, Uttarakhand in the 2014 Indian general election."
tagline: "Indian politician and police chief"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1947"
deathDate: "2019-08-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump