B.N. Mullik
Former IB and Sashastra Seema Bal chief (India)
Bhola Nath Mullik, popularly referred to as B.N. Mullik, was commissioned in the imperial Indian Police, with initial posting in Bihar. He would later become the second and long-serving Director of post-partition India's Intelligence Bureau (IB). He hailed from Calcutta, Bengal.
He was a fierce loyalist to Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and point-person for major foreign policy as well as internal political issues. He was deemed a 'colossus' by contemporaries in the police.
Some observers noted that Mullik relied on 'extra-sensory perception' more than informed intelligence assessments when advising Nehru, especially on matters pertaining to China.
Known Professional History:-
Deputy Director of Civil Defence and Deputy Secretary (Home) to the Government of Orissa (mentioned in records of 1944)
Joined IB as Deputy Director (1948)
Director IB (1950-64)
Director Sasashtra Seema Bal (SSB) (March to December 1963) concurrent with headship of IB
Director General of the Security Directorate (1965-66)
Miscellaneous:-
It was on Mullik's advice that Nehru directed the establishment of Special Frontier Force (SFF), a paramilitary force to counter Chinese military forces
Mullik was referred to as 'g*d' by the junior officers, and some had great regard and admiration for him. Many others hated him equally
Mullik was probably the most extensively travelled DIB. He visited a large number of check posts along the Indo-Tibetan border. Mullik was, therefore, up-to-date and well informed on border affairs
He had plans to set up an 'Assamese Resistance Force' along the lines of SFF in India's northeast
References
Supplement to London Gazette, 8 June 1944, https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/36544/supplement/2589/data.pdf
Amitava Sanyal, 'The curious case of Establishment 22', Hindustan Times, https://www.hindustantimes.com/india/the-curious-case-of-establishment-22/story-eiDenZvNioffJFupLzNGOI.html
B.N. Mullik, 'My Years with Nehru - The Chinese Betrayal'
K.S. Subramanian, 'Political Violence and the Police in India'
T.V. Rajeswar, 'India - The Crucial Years'
Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty, 'From 1962, B.N. Mullik's Plan to Create an Assamese Resistance Force Against the Chinese', The Wire, https://m.thewire.in/article/security/india-china-face-off-bn-mullik-nehru-intelligence-bureau-resistance-force