NEW DELHI: It’s a rare coincidence. With Wednesday’s appointments of top bosses in the Intelligence Bureau and RAW , the batch of 1984 IPS officers has emerged as the lucky lot to be occupying most high-profile slots meant for police officers.Apart from the two elite intelligence establishments, officers of this batch are heading at least six other agencies — NIA, BSF, CISF, ITBP, NSG and the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security.Most of these officers were empanelled as DGPs, DGPs at the Centre or DGP equivalent — the three categories in this rank — in June 2017.Soon afterwards, Assam-Meghalaya cadre officer Y C Modi was appointed director general in the National Investigation Agency in September that year — the first of a string of crucial positions that would go to what is being referred to as the lucky “Class of 84”.In January 2018, Telangana cadre officer Sudeep Lakhtakia was posted as director general in the National Security Guard .Within three months, another officer of this batch got the chance to head an agency when Bihar cadre officer Rajesh Ranjan was placed as director general in the Central Industrial Security Force in April last year. Ranjan was special DG in the BSF before moving to CISF.Five months later, Uttar Pradesh cadre officer Rajnikant Mishra was appointed BSF chief. A month after Mishra, Haryana cadre officer S S Deswal was appointed chief of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police. Before being made ITBP chief in October last year, Deswal was the chief of SSB.In January, Gujarat cadre officer Rakesh Asthana was posted as director general in BCAS.The lucky run continued, and on Wednesday, PM Narendra Modi appointed Punjab cadre officer Samant Goel as chief of the Research and Analysis Wing and his batchmate, Arvind Kumar, from the Assam-Meghalaya cadre as IB director.