NEW DELHI : Special Director of Intelligence Bureau IPS officer Tapan Kumar Deka has been appointed as the Director of Intelligence Bureau for a tenure of two yeas. Deka will be succeeding Arvind Kumar upon completion of his tenure on June 30, 2022.
Deka, a Himachal Pradesh cadre officer from 1988 batch, is a north-east affairs expert who was sent to Assam by Home Minister Amit Shah after anti-CAA violence erupted in 2019.
Currently, Tapan Kumar heads the Intelligence Bureau’s Operations section and has been tracking terrorists and religious extremism for the past two decades.
Meanwhile, the tenure of Samant Goel, who has been heading the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW), has been extended by one more year, the ministry said in another order.