New Delhi, Jan 06: Director General of National Security Guards R S Mooshahary was today appointed Director General of BSF.
A 1967-batch IPS officer from Kerala cadre, Mooshahary succeeds Ajai Raj Sharma who retired on December 30, a Home Ministry spokesman said.
Mooshahary headed the NSG for over two years during which the elite force tackled various emergencies, including the operation at the famous Akshardham Temple in Gujarat when two militants of a suicide squad stormed it and indulged in indiscriminate killings in 2002.
The militants were killed after a night-long operation.
The NSG was also called in when a CISF constable went berserk at Mumbai's Sahar Airport, killing his senior officer and taking several of his colleagues hostage in 2002. The situation was later defused peacefully.
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