TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ Central Industrial Security Force chief Subodh Kumar Jaiswal was on Tuesday appointed as the new Central Bureau of Investigation director for two years, according to a personnel ministry order. Jaiswal is a 1985-batch Indian Police Service officer of Maharashtra cadre. He has also served as Maharashtra’s director general of police in the past.
The Central Bureau of Investigation was working without a regular chief for over three months after Rishi Kumar Shukla completed his two-year tenure on February 3. CBI Additional Director Praveen Sinha, a 1988-batch IPS officer of Gujarat cadre, was appointed the acting chief of the agency after Shukla completed his tenure.
Jaiswal has been appointed as the director of CBI for a period of two years, the ministry order said. A three-member selection committee led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi had on Monday shortlisted Jaiswal’s name. Chief Justice of India N V Ramana and Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury are the two members of the panel.
