Dineshwar Sharma (23 March 1954 – 4 December 2020) was an Indian
police officer
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. He was the chief of the Indian
Intelligence Bureau Intelligence Bureau may refer to:
* Intelligence Bureau (India)
* Intelligence Bureau (Pakistan)
* Intelligence agency
See also
*Intelligence Bureau for the East, a World War I German organisation
*Intelligence agency
*National Intelligence Servic ...
(succeeded by
Rajiv Jain),
that is the
Director of Intelligence Bureau
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which is the highest-ranked post in the
Indian Police Service
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Along with the Indian Administrative Service (IAS ...
(IPS). He also served as an
interlocutor to the
government of India
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for the state of
Jammu and Kashmir Jammu and Kashmir may refer to:
* Kashmir, the northernmost geographical region of the Indian subcontinent
* Jammu and Kashmir (union territory), a region administered by India as a union territory
* Jammu and Kashmir (state), a region administered ...
. He served as the 34th
Administrator of Lakshadweep from 2019 until his death.
Background
Born in Bihar, he gained primary education in Pali,
Bihar
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, and later graduated from
Magadh University, Bodh Gaya. A third-generation policeman, Sharma first qualified for
Indian Forest Service
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(IFS) and later for IPS.
Career
He worked continuously in the IB after 2008. He attended training on intelligence work and policing methods in
East Germany
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,
Poland
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,
Israel
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and
South Korea
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. He served in Nagaland, Jammu and Kashmir, Gujarat and Rajasthan in various capacities in BSF, CRPF and IB. He also worked with National Security Adviser (NSA)
Ajit Doval during his earlier stint as IB chief. He was fluent in Hindi, English, Maithili, Malayalam, Tamil, Arabic, and Urdu.
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Indian police officers
Spymasters
Indian spies
1952 births
2020 deaths
Indian police chiefs
Directors of Intelligence Bureau (India)
People from Bihar
Administrators of Lakshadweep
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in India