New Delhi: Senior IPS officer Mahesh Dixit appointed as Intelligence Bureau new Chief by Union Government on Thursday. He is 1993-batch IPS officer from Andhra Pradesh cadre. After bifurcation of the Andhra Pradesh State he belongs to Telangana cadre IPS officer.

Now he is working as Special Director in the Intelligence Bureau and commands extensive experience as head of State Intelligence Bureau in Jammu and Kashmir. The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet cleared the appointment of Dixit. This appointment was cleared by Appointments Committee of the Cabinet chaired by PM Narendra Modi. The present IB Chief Tapan Kumar Deka, who has been holding the post for the past four years, he is not willing to continue in the post.

The IB is the country’s primary internal security and counter-intelligence agency, operating under the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA).

The Department of Personnel & Training (DoPT) in an order said that the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved the appointment of Mahesh Dixit, IPS (AP:93), Special Director, Intelligence Bureau. As Director, Intelligence Bureau vice Tapan Kumar Deka, IPS (HP-88) for tenure of two years from the date of assumption of the charge of the post or until further orders, whichever is earlier, by granting extension in service under the provision of FR 56(d) and Rule 16 (1A) of All India Services (Death Cum Retirement Benefits) Rules, 1958. Dixit was due to retire in August 2027.

Deka was first appointed to the post in 2022 for a two-year fixed tenure and then his services in the post were extended twice till June 2026. Dixit, a medical doctor by education, has led the Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) desk and has also served in Nagaland and Bihar.

He was Deputy Director of IB in J&K from 2009-12 and from 2012-15, he was posted in Nagaland. He took charge of the Subsidiary Intelligence Bureau (SIB) of J&K in 2020 and served there till 2024, overseeing the security preparedness and intelligence-based operations post revocation of Article 370 in the erstwhile State.