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Karnataka DGP will be the new CBI boss

Updated on: 15 May,2023 07:40 AM IST  |  New Delhi
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The 59-year-old has been appointed to the post for a period of two years from the date of taking charge after Subodh Kumar Jaiswal completes his tenure on May 25, according to officials

Karnataka DGP will be the new CBI boss

Karnataka DGP Praveen Sood. FILE PIC

Karnataka Director General of Police Praveen Sood has been appointed as the next director of the Central Bureau of Investigation, a government order said on Sunday.


The 59-year-old has been appointed to the post for a period of two years from the date of taking charge after Subodh Kumar Jaiswal completes his tenure on May 25, according to officials.


Sood is a 1986-batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer of the Karnataka cadre and the senior-most IPS officer in the country after Jaiswal.


His name was cleared on Saturday in a meeting of a high-powered committee comprising Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud and Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury.

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Chowdhury, a Congress leader, had reportedly given a dissent note on the selection of Sood as the next CBI director. However, there was no official word on it.
Sood has an impressive educational background. He is an alumna of IIT-Delhi, IIM-Bangalore and Syracuse University in New York.

The IPS officer, who was scheduled to retire in 2024, will now have a fixed two-year tenure.

He has also served as police adviser to the government of Mauritius.

His initiatives to use technology to better traffic management and provide efficient services to citizens has earned him awards such as the National E-Governance Gold Award for “Most innovative use of technology for traffic management” in 2011 and the Prince Michael International Road safety Award in 2006.

During his tenure as additional director general of police (computer wing), Sood oversaw the challenging assignment to implement of the Criminal Tracking Network System in Karnataka for real-time monitoring and sharing of information by connecting police stations with the central network.

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