On Thursday 9th September 2010 Radha Vinod Raju, Former Special Director-General of Police, Jammu and Kashmir; and former Director-General, National Investigative Agency, India spoke on “Perspective on Kashmir”.
Radha Vinod Raju retired on 31 January 2010 as the first Director-General of the Indian National Investigative Agency (NIA). The NIA was set up in December 2008, in the immediate aftermath of the Mumbai terror attack, as the only counter-terrorism investigation agency with a mandate across all the provinces of India. Prior to this appointment, he served as Special Director General of Police and Head of the Vigilance Bureau in Jammu and Kashmir.
Radha Vinod Raju entered the Indian Police Service in the Jammu and Kashmir cadre in 1975, and served in Kashmir for more than 22 years. He also served in New Delhi at the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), where he was the key investigator in the assassination of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1991 and the 1999 hijacking of an Indian Airlines aircraft from Kathmandu to Kandahar.
This meeting was chaired by Rahul Roy-Chaudhury, Senior Fellow for South Asia,and took place on the 4th floor at Arundel House, 13-15 Arundel Street, Temple Place, London WC2R 3DX.
