Rishi Kumar Shukla: 5 things to know about new CBI chief

Rishi Kumar Shukla was on Saturday appointed the Director of the CBI for a fixed tenure of two years. He has been appointed in place of Alok Kumar Verma, who was removed from the post of CBI Director on January 10.

Rishi Kumar Shukla was on Saturday appointed the Director of the CBI for a fixed tenure of two years. Photo: ANI

NEW DELHI: Rishi Kumar Shukla was on Saturday appointed the Director of the CBI for a fixed tenure of two years. He has been appointed in place of Alok Kumar Verma, who was removed from the post of CBI Director on January 10. Who is Rishi Kumar Shukla? 1: Rishi Kumar Shukla is a 1983-batch IPS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre. 2: He also served as the Madhya Pradesh Director General of Police during the BJP regime. Shukla was appointed as the DGP on June 30, 2016. He held the post till Jan 30, 2019. 3: He is at present chairman of Madhya Pradesh Police Housing Corporation in Bhopal. 4: Shukla has no experience of having worked in the CBI. He has served in the Intelligence Bureau. He would have normally retired in August 2020, but his tenure in CBI will end in February, 2021. 5: Shukla's name was short-listed during the second meeting of the selection committee held on Friday. The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet appointed the 1983-batch IPS officer for a period of two years, a day after a high-level selection committee headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi met to finalise the name. The committee had met twice in the last nine days to choose the CBI chief. "The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet, based on the panel recommended by the Committee, constituted as per Section 4 A(1) of the Delhi Special Police Establishment Act, 1946, approved the appointment of Rishi Kumar Shukla as the Director, CBI, vice Alok Kumar Verma for a period of two years from the date of assumption of charge of the office," an official notification said. The post of the CBI chief has been lying vacant since January 10 after the unceremonious exit of Verma, who had been engaged in a bitter fight with Gujarat-cadre IPS officer Rakesh Asthana over corruption charges. M Nageswara Rao has been working as the interim CBI chief after Verma's ouster.