Niharika Bhatt is a 2015 batch IPS officer who secured All India Rank 146 in the UPSC Civil Services Examination 2014. Hailing from Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, she holds a B.Tech in Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering from the Institute of Engineering and Technology, Lucknow, and an M.Tech in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Michigan, USA. Prior to joining the civil services, she worked as a researcher at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Motivated by a desire to serve her country, she returned to India in 2014 to prepare for the UPSC exam, which she cleared in her first attempt. As of August 2020, she was appointed as the Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) in Karaikal.