The extension in service of Intelligence Bureau (IB) chief Tapan Kumar Deka was approved by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet for a period of one year beyond June 30, 2025 or until further orders.
So 1988 batch Himachal Pradesh cadre IPS officer Deka got his one-year extension till June 2026, according to a Govt order.
His fraternity people call him the crisis manager in the power corridors.
Considered an expert in ‘operations’ especially in Jammu and Kashmir as well as in the Northeast region; he also served as the head of the operations wing of the IB for over two decades.
Deka was initially appointed Director of Intelligence Bureau for a tenure of two years with effect from June 2022. He previously got a one-year extension in 2024.
Sources say he was deputed in his home state Assam to handle the volatile situation that arose following the large-scale violence after the enactment of the Citizenship Amendment Act in December 2019.
Deka spent most of his career in the intelligence bureau. He was an Additional Director in the Intelligence Bureau when he was promoted to the rank of Special Director in the Wing in June last year.
Deka has decades of experience in counter-terrorism. He was the operations joint director when Indian Mujahideen was at the peak of its terror activities within the country. Under his leadership, IB tracked each of the Indian Mujahideen's operatives over the year. He also handled operations during the 2015–16 Pathankot air base attack and the 2019 Pulwama attack.
He has also handled crucial cases like terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir, especially targeted killings in the Valley.
His extension is “in relaxation of the provisions of FR 56 (d) and Rule 16 (1A) of All India Services (Death cum Retirement Benefits) Rules, 1958”, it said.
The rules allow the central government to extend in “public interest” the services of the chiefs of IB and Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), Cabinet Secretary, Home Secretary and others, beyond 60 years age of superannuation.
He was also in charge of the counter-assaults during the 26/11 Mumbai attack in 2008.
He had led the operations against the terror group Indian Mujahideen, which was behind a series of subversive activities across the country in the 2000s.
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