Additional Director Praveen Sinha to be acting Director, CBI SECTIONS Last Updated: Feb 03, 2021, 03:21 PM IST Share Synopsis The two year tenure of Rishi Kumar Shukla as Director, CBI ended on Wednesday. Shukla had superseded Alok Verma in February 2019 after Verma was unceremoniously removed as Director, CBI by the government. Agencies The high powered committee, comprising Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Chief Justice of India SA Bobde and Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, will shortly meet to take a call on the next CBI Director. With the Prime Minister-led high powered committee yet to convene a meeting to decide on the next Director of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), the charge will be held on an interim basis by agency's Additional Director Praveen Sinha, a 1988 batch Gujarat cadre IPS officer.