The Government of India on May 25 appointed 1985-batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Subodh Kumar Jaiswal as the new Director of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
- He has been appointed for the fixed tenure of two years, or until further orders.
- Mr. Jaiswal was selected by a high-powered panel led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Chief Justice of India Justice NV Ramana, and Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhary were also part of the panel that selected the CBI Chief.
- Shri Jaiswal, 58, is currently serving as the Director General of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF).
- Born on September 22, 1962 in Dhanbad (now in Jharkhand), Jaiswal joined the Indian Police Service (IPS) in 1985 at the age of 23 and was allotted the Maharashtra cadre.
- Jaiswal headed the 2003 High Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) that probed Abdul Karim Telgi’s multi-crore fake stamp paper scam which was later taken over by the CBI.
- He has had stints in the Intelligence Bureau (IB) and the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW).
- In 2018, he returned to Mumbai as the Police Commissioner under Devendra Fadnavis-led Maharashtra government. A year later in February 2019, he was appointed as Maharashtra’s Director General of Police (DGP).
