Overview

• Officials say his brief covers Jammu and Kashmir, Left-Wing Extremism and insurgencies in the Northeast.
• A 1988-batch IPS officer from the Manipur cadre, he retired in December 2024 after nearly 30 years in the Intelligence Bureau and later led the ITBP and CRPF.
• As CRPF director general, he set up more than three dozen forward operating bases, raised four new battalions and began realigning 130 battalions to cut average home-centre distance from 1,200 km to 500 km.
• He oversaw the force’s security deployments for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections and the first Jammu and Kashmir Assembly polls after reorganisation.
• He joins a leadership group that includes Additional NSA Rajinder Khanna and deputy NSAs T. V. Ravichandran and Pawan Kapoor, while an honorary-ranks policy for CAPF retirees he proposed was approved earlier this year.