42 -year -old IPS Ingit Pratap Singh with your father (Figure: Special Arrangement) New Delhi: In July, some joked that the searing wave caused it to feel as if it had been a month. It was like an invisible dragon breathing fire all over the region. But even in the middle of the Tyranie of the Sun, one column on Instagram managed to cool the summer glare.It read: “Happy birthday Papa !! From the 70 years of your life, I had the honor to be your son for 41 years … I was hoping to continue this partnership as long as possible !!!
Exclusive Gold victory for India at 41 years! IPS Ingit Pratap Singh now focuses on the Olympic Statuse
The post was a picture of the IPS IPS Ingit Pratap Singh with his father, the son proudly wearing his neck, a medal, which won 10 meters of air rifles to the world police and firefighting games in Birmingham in Alabama this July.The story began when the young Inciit unpacked the air rifle gifted by his father for his eighth birthday.“Every weekend we went to our roof to practice 20 shots. Slowly, love grew and I knew I wanted to do something for the country through this sport,” he remembered during interaction with Timesofindia.com.The Singhov Cabinet boasts silver at the Delhi shooting championship in 2022, the bronze in Winnipeg 2023, and now its most interesting price, gold in Birmingham 2025.If Singh’s shooting journey is really experiencing an upward trajectory, it’s just because of the shadows he walked earlier.He grew up and dreamed of serving in the Indian army.
IPS Officer Ingit Pratap Singh. (Figure: Special Arrangement)
Despite the cleaning of the NDA and then joined the Indian Military Academy, fate hit him occasionally, first diagnosis of abdominal tuberculosis and later with a devastating knee injury that had medically recorded.But Singh, also a joint CEO in the Indian Commission for Competition, has never given up.“I knew corporate work was not my cup of tea. I wanted to serve the country, wear a uniform,” he adds.IPS has become his mission. After 18 hours of study days and three attempts, civil service cracked in 2011.At the Police Academy, Singh has proved to be a natural shooter at a very early age.But when his Delhi published, after years in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, that he really revived his childhood dream.During his time, the Governor of Lieutenant was appointed director of sport, a role that gave Singh a chance to create something permanent.
Ingit Pratap Singh won a gold medal at 10m Air Rifle Action for World Police and Firefighting Games (WPFG) 2025. (Figure: Special Arrangement)
“According to God’s grace, I was able to establish the sports academy of Andaman & Nicobar,” he recalls.The years, as Singh says, were a blessing in disguise: “As soon as I came to Delhi on the shooting line Karni Singh, he rediscover his love for shooting.“Because I had time in Andaman, it’s not a crazy place as a Delhi, I could concentrate. There wasn’t so much crime, not so much distraction. I wasn’t too busy there and that gave me space to start again.”In Mayabunder he built a makeshift reach, bought an air gun for occasional shooting.Two gears in two years and Singh suddenly found himself in Delhi.“I got an air rifle from my second hand through my close friend Sanjeev Rajput, who is the Olympian himself and shot his shoulder to the shoulder legends like Abhinav Bindra and Gagan Narang,” he says.Through Rajput, Singh, he joined the Olympics and holders of the World Sum Shirur record, which is now training the Indian shooting team at her shooting academy of Lakeshya in Navi Mumbai.“I wrote down there, I went through several classes and my score started to improve constantly,” he recalls.
IPS Officer Ingit Pratap Singh. (Figure: Special Arrangement)
Progress soon reflected in the results: silver medal at the Delhi shooting championship in 2022, followed by a performance in three nationals, each of which pushed its score higher, covered it closer to the elite bracket of Indian shooters.Singh’s Day at 5:30, and often ends late after two to three hours of evening, begins between his duties as a police officer in Delhi, his family duties and his criminal shooting schedule.“I enjoy shooting,” he admits. “But more than me, victims are created by my family. My wife, my eight -month -old daughter, my parents, adapts to my absence, my discipline, my restrictions. I don’t eat pizza or sweets because I have to stay in the athlete regime.Now the goal is clear: the Olympic stage.
Ingit Pratap Singh on stage for world police and firefighting games (WPFG) 2025. (Figure: Special Arrangement)
According to the qualifying process, Singh has already achieved a minimum score of state and national qualifications. The upcoming nationals in Bopal this December could open the door for selection exams for the Indian shooting team.“The TOP 12 shooters from these rehearsals get to the team and then the rotation starts at the main championships,” explains Singh.But the road is far from easy. “Professional shooters train 8 to 10 hours a day. I manage 2-3 hours on weekdays, maybe 6 weekends. I need more time and need sponsorship. Shooting is an expensive sport: rifles, ammunition and travel.Yet for Singha is a message he wants to pass on, simple: “There are five words I always end with – never, never, never, never give up.”
