Subodh Kumar Jaiswal takes charge as Director CBI

Mukesh Ranjan
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, May 26

Senior IPS officer of Maharashtra cadre Subodh Kumar Jaiswal on Wednesday took charge of the office of the Director of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

The government had issued an order of his appointment as the CBI Director yesterday. He will remain in the office for the next two years, as the post has a fixed-term of the same period.

Jaiswal, who is 1985-batch IPS officer, has previously served as DGP Maharashtra, as he also served in Research & Analysis Wing (RAW), the country’s external intelligence agency, for a period of eight years.

Before being appointed as Director CBI, he was the Director General (DG) of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF).

A few months back he had requested the Maharashtra government, his home cadre, to relieve him so that he may go on a central deputation, as he was believed to be not happy with the functioning of the state Home Ministry, particularly in the matter of transfers and postings.

Earlier, he began his career as additional superintendent of Amravati and later went on to serve in Osmanabad, Gadchiroli, Amravati and Aurangabad districts. He had also served as additional commissioner of Mumbai Police.

Jaiswal was head of the special investigation team (SIT), appointed by the Bombay High Court, to probe the stamp paper scam perpetrated by Abdul Karim Telgi. Telgi, who was nabbed in 2001, orchestrated a scam valued at around Rs 3,000 crore using fake stamp papers. He was convicted in 2007. Telgi died in 2017.

Jaiswal also headed the probe by the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) into the serial train blasts in Mumbai’s suburban network that killed over 180 people and left 800 injured.

Twelve Islamic militants affiliated to SIMI were arrested and convicted in 2015 for the attacks, with five receiving death sentences. He also led the probe into the Malegaon blast case in 2006.

Jaiswal returned to Maharashtra in July 2018 to take over as Mumbai Police commissioner. At that time, then Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis was reported to have placed before Prime Minister Narendra Modi the matter of Jaiswal being repatriated to his cadre state.

In February 2019, Jaiswal was appointed DGP of Maharashtra. It was under his supervision that the Maharashtra Police investigated the Bhima-Koregaon violence case, which was subsequently transferred to the CBI.