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Sinha, who has worked in the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) for over two decades, is currently the organization's second-in-command. He was in charge of the operations wing before being elevated.

Digital Desk: Senior IPS officer Ravi Sinha, an expert on neighbouring nations and operations, was named the next chief of external espionage agency R&AW on Monday, succeeding Samant Goel, whose four-year tenure ends on June 30.

The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has accepted the nomination of 59-year-old Sinha, a 1988 batch IPS officer from Chhatisgarh, as the Secretary RAW for a two-year term, according to an order released by the Ministry of Personnel.

Sinha, who has worked in the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) for over two decades, is currently the organization's second-in-command. He was in charge of the operations wing before being elevated.

Sinha's appointment, as a specialist on countries in India's immediate vicinity, comes at a time when Pakistan is politically and economically unstable, Sikh extremism is being fanned from overseas, and attempts to incite violence are being made in the northeast.

Sinha has previously served in Jammu and Kashmir, the northeast, and overseas countries.

In June 2019, his predecessor, Goel, was appointed R&AW chief for a two-year term. He was later granted two one-year extensions in June 2021 and June 2022.

Goel, a Jammu and Kashmir expert, is thought to have played a crucial part in organizing the February 2019 surgical attack in Pakistan's Balakot.

The surgical strike was carried out to revenge the Pulwama terror incident, in which a suicide bomber from Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) killed 40 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) officers.

On February 26, 2019, the Indian Air Force targeted a JeM terrorist training camp in Balakot in response to the incident.

 

 

 

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