The document provides biographical information about a prominent Indian civil servant. It states that he was born in 1945 in a village in Uttarakhand. His father was an Indian Army officer. He joined the IPS in 1968 and served in Kerala, Mizoram, and Punjab, where he was involved in anti-insurgency operations. He was one of the negotiators who helped secure the release of passengers from the hijacked IC-814 flight in 1999. He headed important divisions in India's Intelligence Bureau and helped establish new security organizations.