Updated On: 31 March, 2024 10:47 PM IST | New Delhi | mid-day online correspondent
Date is the recipient of the President’s Police Medal for gallantry for his role in combating the terrorists during the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks

Sadanand Date took charge as new NIA DG
Sadanand Vasant Date, an IPS officer of 1990 batch of Maharashtra cadre, took over charge as the new Director General of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Sunday. Date took charge from Dinkar Gupta who superannuated from the service on March 31.
Date`s appointment as the DG of NIA for a tenure up to his superannuation on December 31, 2026 was approved by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) on March 26.