Indian PM Modi appoints top Police Officers as Chiefs of RAW and IB
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ISLAMABAD - Indian PM Narendra Modi appoints top Police Officers as Chiefs of RAW and Intelligence Bureau.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has appointed Samant Kumar Goel as the next chief of India’s external spy agency, Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) and Arvinda Kumar as the Director, Intelligence Bureau. PM Modi, as chairman of the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet, also cleared the empanelment of 1986 batch IPS officer in the rank of Director General.
Both are Indian Police Service officers of 1984 batch with Goel belonging to Punjab cadre and Kumar, to Assam-Meghalaya cadre.
The two officers will take over this month-end when the extended tenure of IB chief Rajiv Jain and R&AW secretary Anil K Dhasmana link ends. Jain and Dhasmana were appointed in December 2016 and were given a six month extension as the country moved into election mode.
By Wednesday evening, the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet also issued the orders appointing the two officers on a two-year term. Anil Dhasmana’s term expires on 30 June while Rajiv Jain will step down a day earlier, on 29 June.
