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DGP Praveen Sood Of KarnatakaTo Be Next CBI Director
Karnataka DGP Praveen Sood (File photo)
- Praveen Sood, the current DG&IGP of the Karnataka Police, will lead the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) as its new director.
- Sood will succeed Subodh Kumar Jaiswal, the current Director of the CBI, whose two-year term ends on May 25.
Praveen Sood, the current DG&IGP of the Karnataka Police, will lead the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) as its new director.The three-person appointment committee, made up of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Chief Justice DY Chandrachud, and Leader of the Opposition (Congress) in the Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, decided on his name on Saturday.
On the basis of the panel's recommendation, the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) allegedly approved Sood's appointment. However, the order is still pending. The Director of CBI has a fixed two-year term in place.
He is an IPS from the batch of 1985. He is the third Director to be appointed from the Karnataka cadre of IPS officers. Sood is a Himachal Pradesh native. He became the DG&IGP for Karnataka on February 1, 2020, and his retirement was scheduled for May 2024.
