New Delhi: Sanjay Mishra has been appointed as an interim Director of Enforcement Directorate (ED) by Appointments Committee of the cabinet (ACC). This comes after former Enforcement Directorate Director Karnal Singh retired on Saturday after more than two-and-half years at the helm of affairs in the agency.
  • Mishra has been appointed for the period of three months till the appointment of a permanent incumbent takes place.
  • Sanjay Mishra is an Indian Revenue Services officer from the batch of 1984.
  • Mishra has been serving as a chief commissioner of Income Tax in Delhi.
  • Mishra has also worked in Ahmedabad and has served the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Enforcement Directorate.
  • As per sources, he has been involved in the probe against news group NDTV and has been a part of the investigation in the National Herald case involving the Gandhi family as well.
  • He also investigated the case of disproportionate assets against BSP Chief Mayawati.
Singh will complete an over three year tenure as the ED Director. Official sources said Mishra, posted as chief commissioner of Income Tax in Delhi at present, has not been empanelled as an additional secretary in the central government and hence has been given the top ED charge in an additional capacity. He is expected to be empanelled soon and subsequently will head the ED in a regular capacity, they said. The ED director post is an additional secretary rank post in the Union government. The ED enforces two major laws in the country to check black money the criminal Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) and the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA).