The Maharashtra home department has approved the formation of a mounted police unit with 30 horses, for Mumbai Police. Currently, the unit has 13 horses in its stable.
The new CBI chief’s first challenge
The new CBI chief’s first challenge
As Maharashtra DGP, Subodh Jaiswal had locked horns with chief minister Uddhav Thackeray. How will that play out as his agency investigates former home minister Anil Deshmukh?
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File photo of newly appointed CBI director Subodh Kumar Jaiswal; (PTI)
The first test of new CBI chief Subodh Jaiswal will be the investigation into the charges against his former boss, Anil Deshmukh. The former Maharashtra home minister has been accused of giving Mumbai police officers, including sacked assistant police inspector Sachin Vaze, a target of collecting Rs 100 crore per month from bars and restaurants in Mumbai.
No one expects Subodh Jaiswal to catch the T.N. Seshan virus of assertive institutional independence. But he should remember that his elevation took place because a new CJI felt a judge’s moral duty to suggest that ‘law’ be observed.
New Delhi:
The Union government has given a year-long extension to Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) secretary Samant Goel and Intelligence Bureau (IB) director Arvind Kumar.
The officers, both of whom belong to the 1984 batch of Indian Police Service (IPS), were due to retire on June 30.
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved the extension for a period of one year beyond June 30, 2021.
While Mr Goel is an IPS officer from the Punjab cadre, Mr Kumar belongs to the Assam and Meghalaya cadre.
Earlier, in 2019, the government had given six-month extensions to the then R&AW Secretary Anil Dhasmana and then director of IB Rajeev Jain. Both retired on June 30 that year. Mr Dhasmana now heads the National Technical Research Organisation.