P. K. Hormis Tharakan | |
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Secretary of the Research and Analysis Wing | |
In office 1 February 2005 –31 January 2007 | |
Preceded by | C. D. Sahay |
Succeeded by | Ashok Chaturvedi |
Personal details | |
Born | Kerala,India | 31 January 1947
Military service | |
Allegiance | ![]() |
P. K. Hormis Tharakan is a retired Indian Police Service (IPS) officer of the Kerala cadre (1968 batch) who served as the Secretary of the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW),India's external intelligence agency,from 1 February 2005 to 31 January 2007. [1] [2] He is the former Director General of the Kerala Police. [3]
Tharakan succeeded C. D. Sahay,a 1967 batch officer of the IPS' Karnataka cadre on 31 January 2005 to take over as the Secretary of R&AW. [4] After his retirement from R&AW in 2007,Tharakan moved to Bangalore,Karnataka. [2]
He was one of the advisors to the Governor of Karnataka,when the state was brought under the President's rule prior to Assembly elections in the state in 2008. [1] He was a member of the National Security Council and was also the Chief Advisor of Strategic Affairs. [5] [6]
In 2014,he moved to Olavaip,his ancestral village in Kerala. [2] Tharakan and his family are from Olavip. [2] In 2016,Tharakan began to experiment with paddy-shrimp farming in Olavaip and by 2019,he was a full time paddy-shrimp farmer. [2]