The Centre on Monday announced a one-year extension for Intelligence Bureau director Tapan Kumar Deka until June 30, 2025.

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The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet headed by PM Narendra Modi has approved the extension in service of Deka -- a 1988 batch IPS officer of Himachal Pradesh cadre -- as the Director, Intelligence Bureau, for a period of one year beyond June 30, 2024, a government order said.


      In June 2022, Deka was appointed as the chief of the domestic spy agency IB for two years after the tenure of incumbent Intelligence Bureau Director Arvind Kumar ended on June 30, 2022.

      Deka has spent most of his career in the Intelligence Bureau.

     

 

     


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