Karnataka Director General of Police Praveen Sood has been appointed as the subsequent director of the Central Bureau of Investigation, a authorities order stated on Sunday. The 59-year-old has been appointed to the submit for a interval of two years from the date of taking cost after Subodh Kumar Jaiswal completes his tenure on May 25.
Praveen Sood’s nomination was permitted by a high-level committee that included Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud, and Leader of the Opposition Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury.
Sood is a 1986-batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer of the Karnataka cadre and the senior-most IPS officer within the nation after Jaiswal.
Sood has a powerful instructional background. He is an alumna of IIT-Delhi, IIM-Bangalore and Syracuse University in New York. The officer, who was scheduled to retire in 2024, will now have a hard and fast two-year tenure. Currently the director basic of police in Karnataka, Sood was earlier superintendent of police of Bellary and Raichur districts, deputy commissioner of police (regulation and order) and extra commissioner of police (visitors) in Bengaluru City, and commissioner of police of Mysore City. The IPS officer has additionally served as a police advisor to the federal government of Mauritius.
His initiatives to make use of know-how to higher visitors administration and present environment friendly providers to residents have earned him awards such because the National E-Governance Gold Award for “Most modern use of know-how for visitors administration” in 2011 and the Prince Michael International Road Safety Award in 2006.
During his tenure as extra director basic of police (pc wing), Sood oversaw the difficult task to implement the Criminal Tracking Network System in Karnataka for real-time monitoring and sharing of data by connecting police stations with the central community.
In March, Karnataka Congress chairman DK Shivakumar referred to as DGP Praveen Sood a “nalayak” and pledged to take motion in opposition to him if his social gathering was elected to energy. The Congress social gathering gained Karnataka by a large majority, and DK Shivakumar is a CM candidate for the social gathering. However, Praveen Sood will relocate to Delhi to take over as CBI director for the subsequent two years.
DK Shivakumar stated in March that the DGP was favouring the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) within the state. He claimed that whereas Sood was in control of the Karnataka Police, round 25 circumstances had been filed in opposition to Congress leaders however none in opposition to BJP leaders.
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