About Hormis Tharakan
Born 1947. Hormis Tharakan is an Indian spy.
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. He is the former Director General of the Kerala Police.
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. After his retirement from R&AW in 2007, Tharakan moved to Bangalore, Karnataka.
In 2014, he moved to Olavaip, his ancestral village in Kerala. Tharakan and his family are from Olavip. In 2016, Tharakan began to experiment with paddy-shrimp farming in Olavaip and by 2019, he was a full time paddy-shrimp farmer.
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Who is Hormis Tharakan?
Indian spy
When was Hormis Tharakan born?
Hormis Tharakan was born on 31 January 1947 in Kerala.
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Hormis Tharakan is a spy.
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Hormis Tharakan is Indian.
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