Subodh Kumar Jaiswal takes charge as 31st director of the CBI 

Senior IPS officer Subodh Kumar Jaiswal on Wednesday took over as the 31st director of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), a post that was lying vacant since February, officials said.

The 58-year-old Maharashtra cadre Indian Police Service (IPS) officer joined duties in the 11th floor office of CBI headquarters in a low-key affair owing to the Covid pandemic, a day after the order for his appointment was issued by the Personnel Ministry.

He will have a two-year fixed tenure as the CBI chief.

He had joined the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) as director general in January.

Besides his long stint at the RAW, the 'spy' has also served in the Special Protection Group, which guards the prime minister, for six years as AIG and DIG.

Starting as a rookie 23-year old IPS officer in the post of additional superintendent of police, Amravati, Maharashtra, he went on to conduct many anti-naxal operations in Gadchiroli as superintendent of police.

In Maharashtra, he was in-charge the Special Investigation Team (SIT); additional commissioner of police (ACP), Anti Terror Squad (ATS), Mumbai; ACP, Central Range, Mumbai; IGP Amravati Range and Commissioner of Police, Brihan Mumbai.

In his 35-year-long policing career, Jaiswal was in the thick of important cases in both overt and clandestine roles.

Jaiswal was at the helm of the probe in the Abdul Karim Telgi stamp paper scam as head of Maharashtra State Reserve Police Force in a court directed investigation, a case which was later taken over by the CBI.

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