Two CBI officers including DIG Anish Prasad, who was at centre of Alok Verma-Asthana controversy, shunted out
Neeraj Chauhan | TNN | Feb 6, 2019, 22:10 ISTNEW DELHI: Two days after new CBI director – Rishi Kumar Shukla took charge, two IPS officers – DIG Anish Prasad, who was at the centre of controversy between former director Alok Verma and ex-special director Rakesh Asthana, and Abhay Singh, were shunted out of the agency “prematurely”.
The appointments committee of cabinet (ACC), which approved the curtailment of tenure of two officers, also promoted joint director Praveen Sinha to the rank of additional director and DIG Amit Kumar as the JD in the agency.
Anish Prasad, a 2003 batch IPS officer of Tripura cadre, was the head of CBI’s special unit (SU), which taps phones and also keeps an eye on the activities of agency officers, when Verma ordered registration of the FIR against Asthana on October 15, 2018. Asthana had alleged that his family was being snooped upon.
There were allegations that SU conducted “illegal interceptions” to register a case against Asthana. CBI probe against Asthana is still going on but sources say that SU’s conduct had come under heavy scrutiny and Prasad was immediately moved out of the unit on October 23, when the government first sent Verma on forced leave and installed an interim chief M Nageswara Rao.
Prasad has been since handling the charge of deputy director (administration). He will now have to go back to Tripura with immediate effect.
As first reported by TOI, the ministry of home affairs is already looking into the alleged illegal interceptions, if any.
About Abhay Singh, a 2002 batch Madhya Pradesh cadre IPS officer, sources said that he was incharge of CBI’s Narada sting probe involving several Trinamool Congress leaders till June last year but there wasn’t any movement in the case due to which he was shifted to Ranchi at that time. Singh has been placed at the disposal of the union home ministry, the DoPT order said.
The government had in January curtailed the tenure of four CBI officers -- Asthana, joint director Arun Kumar Sharma, deputy inspector General Manish Kumar Sinha and superintendent of police Jayant J Naiknavare.
About Sinha’s promotion, officials said 1988 batch Gujarat cadre IPS officer was currently acting as incharge additional director of CBI and handled several zones including anti-corruption Delhi units. He was also looking after the coal scam probes.
He is now a full additional director in CBI.
Similarly, Amit Kumar, 1998 batch Chhattisgarh cadre officer, who was working as Deputy Inspector General in the CBI, has been appointed joint director in the CBI.
He was presently holding the charge of CBI’s policy division as Incharge JD.
The appointments committee of cabinet (ACC), which approved the curtailment of tenure of two officers, also promoted joint director Praveen Sinha to the rank of additional director and DIG Amit Kumar as the JD in the agency.
Anish Prasad, a 2003 batch IPS officer of Tripura cadre, was the head of CBI’s special unit (SU), which taps phones and also keeps an eye on the activities of agency officers, when Verma ordered registration of the FIR against Asthana on October 15, 2018. Asthana had alleged that his family was being snooped upon.
There were allegations that SU conducted “illegal interceptions” to register a case against Asthana. CBI probe against Asthana is still going on but sources say that SU’s conduct had come under heavy scrutiny and Prasad was immediately moved out of the unit on October 23, when the government first sent Verma on forced leave and installed an interim chief M Nageswara Rao.
Prasad has been since handling the charge of deputy director (administration). He will now have to go back to Tripura with immediate effect.
As first reported by TOI, the ministry of home affairs is already looking into the alleged illegal interceptions, if any.
About Abhay Singh, a 2002 batch Madhya Pradesh cadre IPS officer, sources said that he was incharge of CBI’s Narada sting probe involving several Trinamool Congress leaders till June last year but there wasn’t any movement in the case due to which he was shifted to Ranchi at that time. Singh has been placed at the disposal of the union home ministry, the DoPT order said.
The government had in January curtailed the tenure of four CBI officers -- Asthana, joint director Arun Kumar Sharma, deputy inspector General Manish Kumar Sinha and superintendent of police Jayant J Naiknavare.
About Sinha’s promotion, officials said 1988 batch Gujarat cadre IPS officer was currently acting as incharge additional director of CBI and handled several zones including anti-corruption Delhi units. He was also looking after the coal scam probes.
He is now a full additional director in CBI.
Similarly, Amit Kumar, 1998 batch Chhattisgarh cadre officer, who was working as Deputy Inspector General in the CBI, has been appointed joint director in the CBI.
He was presently holding the charge of CBI’s policy division as Incharge JD.
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