Delhi Police chief Alok Verma
appointed new CBI director
appointed new CBI director
The decision was
made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Chief Justice JS Khehar and the Congress’
Mallikarjun Kharge, the leader of the second-largest party in the Lok Sabha.
The 1979-batch Indian Police Service officer Mr.
Alok Vermawas selected for the post by a three-member panel, comprising Prime
Minister Narendra Modi, Chief Justice JS Khehar and Congress’ Mallikarjun
Kharge, the leader of the second-largest party in the Lok Sabha. He will serve
as the CBI chief for the next two years.
Verma has been the chief of the Delhi Police for the past 11
months. An Arunachal Pradesh-Goa-Mizoram and Union Territory cadre, he has also
been the director general of Tihar Jail and the head of the Mizoram Police in
the past.
His appointment comes following controversy over Rakesh Asthana
being named the interim CBI director. The Gujarat cadre IPS officer took over
the post after Anil Sinha’s term ended on December 2. NGO Common Cause had filed petition accusing the Centre of
taking “mala fide, arbitrary and illegal” steps to give Asthana charge of the
CBI, after which the Supreme Court had sought an
explanation from the government.
Asthana, who was the additional director of the agency, was
promoted after the transfer of CBI Special Director RK Dutta, who had been a
top contender for the post, to the Home Ministry as special secretary, which is
a new new addition to the ministry. The NGO had alleged that the Centre had “prematuraely
curtailed’ Dutta’s term at the CBI and
transferred him to the ministry two days before Sinha was scheduled to retire.
Besides Verma, Dutta is believed to have been in the running for
the post of CBI director, along with Sashastra Seema Bal chief Archana
Ramasundaram. Kharge had said that he had not had the time to look into the
credentials of all the officers being considered for the post because the
Centre had not shared the details in advance
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