PM appoints Samant Goel as next chief of RAW, Arvind Kumar as IB Director
Both are IPS officers of 1984 batch with Goel belonging to Punjab cadre and Kumar, to Assam-Meghalaya cadre.
By : DC Correspondent
Update: 2019-06-26 08:00 GMT
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday appointed Samant Goel as the next chief of India’s external spy agency, Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) and Arvind Kumar as the Director, Intelligence Bureau.
Both are Indian Police Service officers of 1984 batch with Goel belonging to Punjab cadre and Kumar, to Assam-Meghalaya cadre.
Goel heads operations for the external intelligence agency.