New Delhi: Senior IPS officer Mahesh Dixit has been appointed as the new Director of the Intelligence Bureau (IB), according to official sources.
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC), chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, approved Dixit’s appointment on Thursday.
A 1993-batch IPS officer of the Andhra Pradesh cadre, Dixit will succeed Tapan Kumar Deka as the head of the country’s premier internal intelligence agency. Official orders regarding his appointment are expected shortly.
