{"id":308938,"date":"2019-02-04T05:37:56","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T05:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=308938"},"modified":"2019-02-04T05:37:56","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T05:37:56","slug":"rishi-kumar-shukla-takes-charge-as-new-cbi-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rishi-kumar-shukla-takes-charge-as-new-cbi-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Rishi Kumar Shukla takes charge as new CBI Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-308823 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/RK-shukla-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"515\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/RK-shukla-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/RK-shukla.jpg 525w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 515px) 100vw, 515px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rishi Kumar Shukla took charge as new CBI Director on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A 1983-batch IPS officer of the Madhya Pradesh cadre, Shukla was appointed on Saturday, weeks after controversial removal of Alok Verma from the post.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He has been appointed as CBI chief for a fixed tenure of two years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Earlier he was working as the chairman of Madhya Pradesh Police Housing Corporation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The post of CBI chief was lying vacant since January 10 after the ouster of Alok Verma.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Shukla\u2019s appointment came a day after the Supreme Court on Friday said it was \u201caverse\u201d to the arrangement of an interim CBI Director and the Centre should \u201cimmediately\u201d appoint a regular Director of probe agency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">M Nageswara Rao was working as the interim CBI director after the ouster of Alok Verma.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rishi Kumar Shukla took charge as new CBI Director on Monday. A 1983-batch IPS officer of the Madhya Pradesh cadre, Shukla was appointed on Saturday, weeks after controversial removal of Alok Verma from the post. He has been appointed as CBI chief for a fixed tenure of two years. Earlier he was working as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":308823,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[10532,10752],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308938"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308938"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308942,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308938\/revisions\/308942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/308823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}