Question: Recently who has been appointed as the new CBI Director?
(a) Alok Kumar Verma
(b) Rakesh Asthana
(c) A. P Singh
(d) None
Ans: (a)
Related facts:
- On 19 January 2017; appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved the appointment of Alok Kumar Verma as the new CBI Director.
- His appointment will be for a period of two years from the date of assumption of charge of his office.
- Alok Kumar Verma, currently Delhi Police commissioner.
- He is a 1979 batch Indian Police Service officer of the Arunachal Pradesh-Goa-Mizoram and Union Territory (AGMUT) cadre.
- He has been selected by three-member selection panel headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and comprising Chief Justice of India Jagdish Singh Khehar and Congress leader in Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge as members.
- At present, Gujarat-cadre IPS officer Rakesh Asthana is the interim director of the investigating agency.
Reference:
http://pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx