The Director of the Intelligence Bureau (DIB) is the

chief executive A chief executive officer (CEO), also known as a central executive officer (CEO), chief administrator officer (CAO) or just chief executive (CE), is one of a number of corporate executives charged with the management of an organization especially ...

of the Intelligence Bureau, India's premier domestic-intelligence agency. The DIB is the senior-most

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officer of India. The current director of Intelligence Bureau is

Tapan Deka Tapan Kumar Deka commonly known as Tapan Deka (born 25 February 1963) is the 28th Director of Intelligence Bureau of India. Deka is an Indian Police Service (IPS) officer (Himachal Pradesh cadre) of the 1988 (41RR), Deka was empanelled as Direct ...

, who is serving since 24 June 2022

Authority

Director IB (DIB) is a member of the Strategic Policy Group and the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC), but intelligence inputs go through the regular channels in the

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to the JIC. DIB reports to Union Home Secretary in the Union Ministry of Home affairs, GoI.

List of Directors of the Intelligence Bureau

The following is the list of Director of Intelligence Bureau.

References

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