Nageswara Rao is Central Bureau of Investigation Joint Director

Vijayawada: A Telugu IPS officer, M Nageswara Rao, now working as Additional Director General, Odisha cadre, has been promoted as the Joint Director of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). A 1986 batch officer, Nageswara Rao is from Mangapet village of Warangal district in Telangana State.

1986 batch IPS officer hails from Warangal district

He said the investigation agncy had become popular during Lakshminarayana’s tenure

Speaking to The Hans India over phone, the senior IPS officer said that the new posting, is another transfer for an employee. But, given the important role that the CBI has to play, he said the new posting is a challenging one. “I am comfortable with challenging tasks. In fact, as IPS officer, we always handle challenging tasks, though we don’t like them.

We want the society to be peaceful and the intervention of police is minimum,” he said. When asked how he felt taking up the new assignment as Joint Director, particularly after V V Lakshminanarayana handled the post in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka States in the recent years, Nageswara Rao said that the CBI had earned popularity during Lakshminarayana’s period.

“The CBI keeps handling such cases, that Lakshminarayana had handled, but the officer became popular among the masses because of the accused involved in the cases,” he said and quipped that India needs to be protected from high profile criminals. “We can’t afford to have such cases every time. Our nation has to be free from such crimes,” he said.

Nageswara Rao, a chemistry post graduate from Osmania University, did his research in Madras IIT, before joining the IPS in 1986.