Director of the Intelligence Bureau

This article is about the director of the Intelligence Bureau in India. For information about the equivalent bureau in Pakistan, see Intelligence Bureau (Pakistan).
Insignia of Director Intelligence Bureau

The Director of Intelligence Bureau (Devanāgarī: खुफिया ब्यूरो के निदेशक, Khufīya Bureau Ke Nīrdeshāk) simply known as DIB is the senior-most post in Intelligence Bureau.[1] Having a four-star rank and being an IPS officer, DIB is the senior-most ranking IPS officer. The current director of Intelligence Bureau is Mr Dineshwar Sharma, a 1979 batch IPS officer.

Former Director of IB, Ajit Doval

Authority

Director IB (DIB) is a member of the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC), but intelligence inputs (at least in theory) go through the regular channels in the Ministry of Home Affairs to the JIC.

Directors

The following is the list of Director of Intelligence Bureau.[2]

No. Director Took office Left office
01 T G Sanjeevi Pillai 1947 1950
02 B N Mullik 15 July 1950 1964
03 S P Verma 1964 1968
04 M L Hooja 1968 1971
05 Atma Jayaram 1971 1975
06 S N Mathur 1975 1980
07 T V Rajeswar 1980 1983
08 R K Kapoor 1983 1984
09 H A Barari 1984 1987
10 M K Narayanan 1987 1989
11 R P Joshi 1989 1990
12 M K Narayanan 1991 1992
13 V G Vaidya 1992 1994
14 D C Pathak 1994 1997
15 Abhijit Mitra 1997 August 1997 September
16 Arun Bhagat 1997 1998
17 Shayamal Dutta 1998 2001
18 K P Singh 2001 2004
19 Ajit Doval 2004 2005
20 E S L Narasimhan 2005 2006
21 P C Haldar 2007 2008
22 Rajiv Mathur 2009 2010
23 N Sandhu 2010 2012
24 Syed Asif Ibrahim 1 January 2013 31 December 2014
25 Dineshwar Sharma 1 January 2015 Present

References

  1. ↑ "THE INDIAN POLICE SERVICE (UNIFORM) RULES,1954". Govt of India. Retrieved 2 September 2013.
  2. ↑
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