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Rishi Kumar Shukla takes over as CBI Director

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Shukla will be taking charge at a time the agency is busy in a turf war with the
Kolkata Police which has spiralled into a political slugfest between the Centre
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and West Bengal Government

Newly-appointed CBI Chief Rishi Kumar Shukla took charge of the probe agency on
Monday. A 1983-batch IPS officer, Mr. Shukla will be taking charge at a time the agency is
busy in a turf war with the Kolkata Police which has spiralled into a political slugfest between
the Centre and West Bengal Government.
A perplexed interim CBI chief M. Nageswara Rao was seen scrambling resources to counter
the West Bengal Police’s action that not only detained a CBI team, which went to question
Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar, but also cordoned off the agency’s office at the
CGO complex in Salt Lake city.

The arrival of 58-year old Mr. Shukla, a former DGP of the Madhya Pradesh Police and an
Intelligence Bureau veteran, as a full-fledged director is likely to bring some sort of order in the
agency as it moves the Supreme Court to challenge the action of the West Bengal
government in ponzi scam cases.

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had started a dharna on Sunday evening to protest against
the alleged highhandedness of the Centre and insults meted out to her by Prime Minister
Narendra Modi and BJP chief Amit Shah.
The issues were triggered when a team of CBI officials arrived unannounced at the doors of
Kolkata Police chief Rajeev Kumar to question him in connection with Saradha and Rose
Valley scam.
The investigations in these cases have been sped up in the run up to the general elections with
the agency recently questioning a close aide of Ms. Banerjee at his residence.
The team was stopped by West Bengal Police personnel and they were bundled into a police
vehicle and taken to a police station.

The West Bengal Police took action as the agency’s officials had failed to produce any warrant,
State police officials had said.
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