Sunday, September 7, 2014

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 scam case. The scam surfaced in 1996 but some of the cases are still pending in the trial court.

RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav quit as Bihar chief minister in 1997 when his name figured in the fodder scam. Lalu Prasad and another former Bihar CM, Jagannath Mishra, are accused in five cases. In 1997 Asthana had arrested RJD chief in the case.

The Gujarat IPS Association recently elected Surat Police Commissioner Mr Asthana as its president. He has held several important positions in his state cadre.

Meanwhile, the CBI is preparing to raise the issue of manpower crunch in the agency with the ministry concerned. “The government must take the matter seriously. Shortage of investigating officers (IOs) in different ranks has forced the CBI to seek assistance of the state governments in different cases,” sources said.

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