New Delhi, Sep 18 (IANS) India Tuesday named Rajiv Mehta, a senior Indian Police Service (IPS) officer, as the next chief of its anti-drug smuggling agency, the Narcotics Control Bureau.
Mehta, a 1981 batch officer from the Assam-Meghalaya cadre, will hold the position for five years, according to a union home ministry release.
But his tenure could be shortened either by his retirement from service or until government issues further orders on his appointment.
NCB is an agency under the department of revenue of the union finance ministry that enforces the stringent Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act.
It is also the central agency responsible for coordinating with other central and state departments in counter narcotics smuggling in and out of the country.
Mehta will be on deputation to the ministry of finance to head the NCB during this tenure.
