TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ Newly-appointed CBI chief Rishi Kumar Shukla took charge of the probe agency Monday, officials said. Shukla, a 1983-batch IPS officer, took charge at a time when the agency is busy in a dirty turf war with the Kolkata Police which has spiralled into a political slugfest between the Centre and West Bengal government.
RK Shukla, IPS, took over charge as director of the CBI this morning, CBI spokesperson Nitin Wakankar said. The arrival of 58-year old Shukla, a former DGP of Madhya Pradesh and an Intelligence Bureau veteran, as a full- fledged director is likely to bring some sort of order in the agency that has moved the Supreme Court to challenge the action of West Bengal government in ponzi scam cases.
A perplexed interim CBI chief M Nageswara Rao was seen scrambling resources to counter the state police’s action which not only detained a CBI team which went to question Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar, but also cordoned off the agency’s office at CGO complex in Salt Lake city.
