NEW DELHI: The ‘technical’ ground that reportedly eliminated senior IPS officials such as Rakesh Asthana and Y C Modi from the race for CBI director’s post – minimum six-month tenure remaining for a DG-level appointment – may not have ramifications for appointments at the helm of other Central police organisations with sources insisting that the SC ruling in this regard only applies to state DGPs selection.
According to some senior IPS officers that TOI spoke to, the Supreme Court 2019 ruling that only officers with at least six-months left for their superannuation, should be considered for appointment as DGPs pertains exclusively to the state police. A senior government functionary, who did not want to be named, endorsed this view.
Who is Subodh Kumar Jaiswal? All you need to know about the new CBI Director
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Senior IPS officer Subodh Kumar Jaiswal was on Tuesday appointed as the new Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) chief for a period of two years. The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has, based on the panel recommended by the Committee constituted as per Section 4A(1) of the Delhi Special Police Establishment Act, 1946, approved the appointment of Subodh Kumar Jaiswal, IPS(Mh-1985) as Director-Central Bureau of Investigation for a period of two years from the date of assumption of charge of the office, a government notification said.
Mukesh Ranjan
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, May 25
Chief Justice of India (CJI) NV Ramana had invoked a 15-year-old Supreme Court’s verdict, which says a person having less than six months