Lakshwadweep Administrator Dineshwar Sharma passed away

Lakshwadweep’s Administrator and former Intelligence Bureau chief Dineshwar Sharma passed away at a Chennai hospital at the age of 66 years.

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 Sharma, a 1979-batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer, hailed from Bihar.

He served as IB Director from 2014 to 2016. He headed the bureau when the government announced demonetisation on November 8, 2016.

After his retirement, he was appointed as an interlocutor for talks with the Assam-based insurgent groups and also headed a committee to restructure the Home Ministry.

Sharma was appointed the Centre’s “Special Representative” to initiate and carry forward a dialogue in Jammu and Kashmir on October 23, 2017, and given the rank of Cabinet Secretary.

After August 5, 2019, when Parliament revoked the special status of J&K and bifurcated the State into two Union Territories, Mr. Sharma was appointed the Administrator of the Union Territory of Lakshwadeep on October 25 last year.