B. P. Singh (Brijendra Pal Singh) was an Indian television producer and director who created CID, the Sony TV crime series that ran from 1998 to 2018 and is one of the longest-running shows in Indian television history. He also produced the horror anthology Aahat and occasionally appeared in CID as DCP Shamsher Singh Chitrole. He died of a heart attack in Mumbai on 27 October 2026, aged 77.
Born in Dehradun, he studied at the Film and Television Institute of India and began as a news cameraman for Doordarshan in 1973. He later served as president of the Indian Film and Television Directors’ Association.
