New Delhi: Two days after new CBI director Rishi Kumar Shukla took charge, the government Wednesday shunted out two Deputy Inspector General (DIG) rank officials from the agency, including one whose name surfaced during controversy between former director Alok Verma and his then deputy Rakesh Asthana.
The appointment committee of the Cabinet approved the curtailment of tenure of Abhay Singh, a 2002-batch Madhya Pradesh cadre officer and Anish Prasad, a 2003 batch Tripura cadre officer, whose name figured during the clash in the agency as in favour of Verma.
The Committee also promoted CBI joint director Praveen Sinha, a 1988-batch Gujarat cadre IPS officer, to the post of additional director and DIG Amit Kumar, a 1998-batch Chhattisgarh cadre officer, to the rank of joint director.
Anish was the head of CBI’s special unit, which taps phones and also keeps an eye on the activities of agency officers. He will now have to go back to Tripura with immediate effect as the government order said it is the ‘premature repatriation’ of the officer who is being sent to his ‘parent cadre consequent on curtailment of the tenure in CBI’.
Abhay was the in-charge of the CBI’s ‘Narda’ sting probe involving several Trinamool Congress leaders till June 2018 but there wasn’t any movement in the case due to which he was shifted to Ranchi at that time. He has now been placed at the disposal of the union Home Ministry, the Department of Personnel order said.
IANS
