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Third extension of ED Director
July 15 , 2023
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- The Supreme Court quashed the Centre's order of granting a third extension to Enforcement Director (ED) Director Sanjay Kumar Mishra.
- It also affirmed the amendments in the DSPE and CVC Act, giving the Centre the power to extend the tenure of a CBI chief and ED director by a possible 3 years beyond their mandatory two-year term.
- Extension can be granted to high-level officials in the public interest and with reasons in writing.
- Mishra was initially appointed as ED director for a two-year tenure ending November 2020.
- Before his tenure came to an end, he was granted a one-year extension which was challenged in the Supreme Court by an NGO, Common Cause.
- By a judgment in September 2021, the court allowed the extension noticing that the tenure was coming to an end in about two months.
- However, the judgment was clear that no further extension was to be granted to Mishra.
- On November 15, 2021, the Centre brought amendments to the CVC Act and the DSPE Act.
- It allowed the government to extend the tenure of CBI, ED chiefs for a period of three years beyond their two-year tenure by granting extensions of one-year each.
- These amendments were challenged in a clutch of petitions before the Supreme Court.
- Under the challenged amendment, Mishra got an extension from November 2021 to November 2022.
- Last November, his tenure was further extended by a notification till November 2023.
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