BSF DG, dy shunted

As part of the new security paradigm which the government is putting in place to check infiltration across the border, the home ministry has shunted the Border Security Force Director General Nitin Agrawal and his deputy Special DG (West) Y B Khurania to their respective state cadres with immediate effect.

Agarwal has been repatriated two years before his tenure was to end. He is a 1989-batch Kerala cadre officer, while Khurania belongs to the 1990-batch of the Odisha cadre. Agrawal had taken charge as BSF chief in June last year. Khurania, as the special DG (West), was heading the formation along the Pakistan border. The orders issued by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet conveyed that they were being "prematurely" repatriated.