Sheel Madhur was born in the holy city of Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh. His family originally belonged to village Poore Basawan Block Bihar, Kunda Tehsil of Pratapgarh district in U.P. During his childhood he studied in various schools in the villages of U.P. and that too in government schools and colleges only. With this initial rural background, he again came to Allahabad and did his graduation, post-graduation and then LLB from Allahabad university. That is how he acquired the degrees of M.A. Modern history and LLB.
From the very beginning he had a passion to serve the people and pursued the dream of joining the premier government services of the country. After the post-graduation he joined central government services at the AG office of U.P. in Allahabad which enabled him financially to withstand the pursuit of his dream of becoming an IPS officer. He always feels thankful to his colleagues and friends in the AG office.
And as a result of his hard work and focused attention he could make into IPS in the year 1985.
After completing his training in Mussoorie, Nagpur and Hyderabad, he was allotted Haryana State where he served in different capacities. Since the very beginning of his career he derived lots of pleasure in listening to people’s problems and made sincere efforts to solve them. He motivated his colleagues and juniors to serve the country passionately by way of displaying their professional competence in attending to crime control, law and order maintenance measures in the most sincere way. He was always appreciated and honored by people as well as his department wherever he was posted during his career.