Rishi Kumar Shukla is new CBI Chief
Feb 2, 2019, 17:41 IST
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New Delhi, Feb 2 (IANS) The government on Saturday appointed Rishi Kumar Shukla, a 1983-batch IPS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre, as new chief of the Central Bureau of Investigation.
His appointment came after the high-level selection committee headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi met twice in the last nine days to select the name from a list of over 70 candidates for the investigating agency's top job.