The Centre has appointed Maharashtra cadre IPS officer of 1985 batch, Subodh Kumar Jaiswal, currently Director General of the Central Industrial Security Force.
He is appointed as CBI Director for two years.
The government has picked him from a panel of three officers.
They were shortlisted by the committee consisting of PM, CJI as well as leader of the largest opposition party in the Lok Sabha.
They were appointed by the Prime Minister-led Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC).
In the PM led panel, Chief Justice of India N.V. Ramana opined to avoid officers with less than six months left to retire for appointment as CBI Director.
This is being termed as a simple “statement of law”.
Because, as per the CJI, the panel’s selection of officers should be able to withstand the “scrutiny of law in the future”.