By IANS
NEW DELHI:Tapan Kumar Deka, the “crisis man” who was put in command of the counter-assaults in the course of the 26/11 Mumbai assault, was on Friday appointed the Director of the Intelligence Bureau (IB) whereas the tenure of Samant Goel, who has been heading the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW), has been prolonged by another 12 months.
Deka, who has been dealing with the operations wing of the IB, takes over as the brand new chief for a tenure of two years, in line with an official order issued by the Personnel Ministry.
He is a 1988 batch officer from the Himachal Pradesh cadre. He takes over from Arvinda Kumar, who will demit his workplace on June 30 after getting a one-year extension final 12 months.
The destiny of A S Rajan, a 1987 batch IPS officer, Special Director in IB, whom Deka has outdated was not recognized but. He has a service tenure until February subsequent 12 months.
The different Special Director Swagat Das was shifted on Thursday and posted as Special Secretary (Internal Security) within the Union Home Ministry.
The tenure of Samant Goel, who has been heading the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW), has been prolonged by another 12 months, the ministry mentioned in one other order. With this, Goel is the third R&AW chief who has acquired a tenure of greater than three years.
Earlier R N Kao, the founder chief of RAW served the company for 9 years adopted by N F Suptnook who was on the helm of affairs for six years. Deka, thought of to be an professional on the affairs of operations, particularly in Kashmir in addition to the Northeast, at the moment head the operations wing of the IB, which he has been serving for over twenty years.
He has an enormous expertise about terrorists and Islamic radicalisation within the nation and had led the operations towards the phobia group Indian Mujahideen, which created mayhem by way of a collection of bombings and different subversive actions throughout India within the 2000s.
Deka, who hails from Assam, was personally despatched by Union Home Minister Amit Shah to his residence state to deal with the unstable state of affairs that arose following the large-scale violence that rocked Assam after the enactment of the Citizenship Amendment Act in 2019.
Off-late, he has been the go-to man for the federal government on the affairs of Jammu and Kashmir as he has huge expertise in dealing with Pakistan-sponsored terrorism within the delicate Union Territory. Goel, a 1984 batch IPS officer of Punjab cadre, was first appointed as R&AW head in 2019 for 2 years. He was given an extension for one 12 months in 2021 and once more now for one more 12 months.
He is believed to have performed a key function in planning the February 2019 surgical air strikes at Balakot in Pakistan that had been carried out to avenge the Pulwama terror assault which killed 40 CRPF personnel. Besides, Goel is taken into account an professional on the state of affairs in Kashmir.
