Rakesh Asthana to be new CBI joint director
Rakesh Asthana, is a 1984 batch IPS officer of Gujarat cadre. He is basically from Bihar.Rakesh Asthana is going to be the new CBI joint director. The current director of CBI is a Bihar Cadre officer named Ranjit Sinha. Ranjit Sinha is born in Bihar too. Ranjit Sinha was the Director General of Police of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) .Also he had worked as Director General of the Railway Protection Force before joining as the CBI Director in December 2012 for a two-year tenure. He has also served in senior positions in the CBI in Patna and Delhi. Asthana is considered to be a favourite police officer of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.Being a senior Gujarat cadre police officer, Mr Asthana has in past worked closely with the present dispensation at the centre.Currently he is Police Commissioner of Surat . He had earlier served in the CBI as superintendent of police in Dhanbad, (then in Bihar) in 1994, and was one of the key investigators in the fodder...