The boundary between India and Pakistan was demarcated by

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Punjab Police SI 2016 Official Paper

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The correct answer is Cyril Radcliffe.

Key Points

The British architect Sir Cyril Radcliffe was appointed as the joint chairman of the two boundary commissions of the India and Pakistan provinces.
He was assigned the responsibility to equally divide the territory of India with 88 million people.
It is named after its architect and thus it is called the Radcliffe line.
It is the demarcation line between India and Pakistan that divides the Punjab and Bengal provinces of British India.
This demarcation line was published on 17 August and it was called partition day of India.