Officials said that DIG BN Singh, posted at the Recruit Training Centre of Central Reserve Police Force here, complained of severe chest pain after which he was taken to a hospital in Nanded.
"He breathed his last at the hospital. Singh was 52. He had suffered a heart attack," an official said.
Singh had joined CRPF in 1987 as a direct entry officer and hailed from Moradabad in Uttar Pradesh. He is survived by his wife, a son and a daughter.