Maharashtra IPS Officer Sadanand Vasant Date Is New Chief of NIA

New Delhi: Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad head Sadanand Vasant Date has been appointed as the Director General of the National Investigation Agency (NIA). He is a 1990-batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer of the Maharashtra cadre.

Date’s appointment order stated that he will be the Director General (DG) of the NIA for tenure up to his superannuation on December 31, 2026. He will succeed Dinkar Gupta, who is due to superannuate on March 31.

Piyush Anand will be the new chief of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF).

A 1991-batch IPS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre, Anand is presently the Special DG of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF).

The ACC also appointed Rajeev Kumar Sharma, a 1990-batch IPS officer of the Rajasthan cadre, as the Director General of the Bureau of Police Research & Development. He will succeed Balaji Srivastava.

The ACC also appointed S Suresh, a 1995-batch IPS officer of the Kerala cadre, as the Additional Director General of the Special Protection Group (SPG).