PM appoints Samant Goel as next chief of RAW, Arvind Kumar as IB Director
Both are Indian Police Service 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.