IPS Anil Dhasmana to be new RAW chief, Rajiv Jain to head IB

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New Delhi/ 17 December 2016. The Special Secretary in the Cabinet Secretariat and Madhya Pradesh cadre IPS officer Anil Kumar Dhasmana will be the new chief of country's foreign intelligence department - the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW).

The appointment order issued by the government also brings curtain down on immense speculation over possible extension for the incumbent R&AW chief Rajinder Khanna.

Official sources said here that the Rajiv Jain of Jharkhand cadre was today appointed as the new Intelligence Bureau (IB) chief replacing Dineshwar Sharma. 

Jain, a 1980 batch IPS officer was currently posted as Special Director of the IB. (UNI)