Mr. Dinkar Gupta is an Indian Police Service (IPS) Officer of the 1987 batch of the Punjab cadre and has more than 30+ year of experience in security domain. He was the Director General of the National Investigation Agency (NIA), the premier counter-terror agency of India, from June 2022 to March 2024. Earlier, he led the Punjab Police as its Director-General of Police (DGP) for over 2.5 years from 2019-2021.
Mr. Gupta was part of the fight against the terrorist movement in Punjab in the eighties and early nineties as a young Superintendent of Police, for which he was decorated with the Police Medal
for Gallantry in 1992 and the Bar to ‘Police Medal for Gallantry’ in 1994 by the President of India.
Mr. Gupta is also a recipient of President’s Police Medal for Meritorious Service (2003) and President’s Police Medal for Distinguished Service (2011).
Mr. Gupta served in the Intelligence Bureau for over 8 years from 2004 to 2012. Later, he headed the Intelligence Wing of Punjab as Director General Intelligence, which included the direct oversight
of the Counter Terrorist Squad and Organised Crime Control Unit for about 2 years. He’s also credited with smashing the narco-terrorism network in Punjab. He represented India at an Interpol Conference on International Terrorism in 1996.
In 1999, he was awarded the British Chevening Gurukul Scholarship at the London School of Economics, UK. In January 2001, he was invited by the American University as well as George
Washington University in Washington DC, to design and teach a course titled ‘Governments under Siege: Understanding Terrorism and Terrorists’.
He has also been an Executive-in-Residence at the School of International Service, American University, in 2000-2001.
Careers
Mr. Gupta is a Commerce graduate with a Master’s degree in Police Administration.
Details of other Directorships
- Shadowfax Technologies Limited
- Punjab Police Officers Club
Nationality: Indian