Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday (05.05.2025) chaired a high-level meeting of the committee responsible for selecting the next Director of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). The meeting was attended by Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi and Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna.
The meeting was convened at the Prime Minister’s Office in the evening to deliberate on the upcoming vacancy at the helm of the premier investigating agency.
The current CBI Director, Praveen Sood (IPS:1986:KN), is set to retire on May 25. Sood, a Karnataka cadre IPS officer and former state police chief, assumed charge of the CBI in May 2023, succeeding Subodh Kumar Jaiswal (IPS:1985:MH).
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