Om Prakash Galhotra is an Indian Police Service officer of the 1985 batch belonging to Rajasthan cadre.[3] His transfer in 2018 was allegedly in violation of the directions of the Supreme Court of India.[1] Then he served as District Superintendent of Police of District Dholpur, Chittorgarh and Bharatpur in succession until June 1996 when he started his stint at the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), New Delhi as a Superintendent of Police and later as Deputy Inspector General.[1] He moved back to Rajasthan in 2004 and worked as Inspector General of Police in Jaipur until 2008 when he started his second stint as Joint Director in the CBI, at Kolkata and Delhi.[1] Galhotra was awarded the Police Medal for Meritorious Service (IPM) on the occasion of Independence Day 2001 and the President's Police Medal for Distinguished Service on the occasion of Independence Day 2009.