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The appointments of CBI and ED chiefs under the Modi government have been controversial. A day ago, an order has been issued to make Karnataka DGP Praveen Sood the director of CBI. A three-member committee headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi finalized his name on Saturday. The special thing is that Lok Sabha Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chaudhary, who is included in this high-level committee, opposed usury. The decision to appoint the Karnataka police chief as the CBI chief comes at a time when the BJP has been swept out of power in the state. Congress’s ‘conflict of interest’ is not new. In March this year, veteran Congress leader DK Shivakumar, who is in the chief ministerial race in Karnataka, alleged that DGP Praveen Sood was shielding the BJP government in the state and targeting the Congress through the assembly process.
DK had said till then that action will be taken against the usurers after the Congress government is formed. However, Chief Justice DY Chandrachud, who was a member of the committee, cleared the appointment and saved the government from trouble. Had the Chief Justice raised questions, the appointment could have been stayed.
PM had to listen to CJI
Congress leader Adhir Sood disagreed about the candidature. He argued that he was not included in the pool of IPS officers eligible for posting at the DGP level at the Centre. But this decision was taken with the concurrence of PM and CJI. So the question is, is the CJI bound to give a ‘yes’ verdict? The answer is no. Earlier in May 2021, the names of two candidates were dropped from the race for the post of CBI director over the objection of the then Chief Justice NV Ramana. Sources then said that the CJI had cited Supreme Court guidelines in March 2019 in the Prakash Singh case that an officer whose retirement is less than six months away cannot be made police chief. At that time Adhir Ranjan Chaudhary was also in support of the CJI and in such a situation the Prime Minister had to accept his word. At that time YC Modi and Rakesh Asthana were out of the race.
Disagreements over appointments are nothing new
The Director of CBI is appointed for a term of two years, extendable to a maximum of 5 years. Disagreement in appointment is not new. This also happened in 2017 when the then Delhi Police Commissioner Alok Verma was appointed as CBI Director. Then Congress leader in Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge said that Verma has very little experience in CBI. Later in 2019, Kharge objected to the appointment of CBI Director Rishi Shukla. He alleged that selection rules were relaxed in violation of the law and Supreme Court judgments. Former Maharashtra DGP Subodh Kumar Jaiswal was appointed as CBI Director in May 2021. Following this, former Maharashtra ACP Rajendra Dwivedi sought cancellation of his appointment.
59-year-old Sood is a 1986 batch IPS officer of the Karnataka cadre. He is the senior most IPS officer after Jaiswal. Sood will take over after Subodh Kumar Jaiswal completes his tenure on May 25. Sood studied at IIT Delhi, IIM Bangalore and Syracuse University in New York. He was supposed to retire in 2024, but now his tenure will be 2 years. IPS officer Sood has also served as Police Advisor to the Government of Mauritius.
