The Chief Justice of India NV Ramana has reached Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s house for a meeting of the committee to select the next director of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
The meeting to be presided over by PM himself and consisting of Leader of Opposition Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury and the chief justice himself will be considering Indian Police Service (IPS) officers from four senior-most batches (1984-87) to be the next CBI chief.
Some of the frontrunners for the post include YC Modi, a 1984-batch IPS officer from the Assam-Meghalaya cadre and Director General of the National Investigation Agency, Rakesh Asthana, Gujarat cadre Director-General of the Border Security Force, and SS Deswal, Haryana cadre Director General of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police, a news channel reported.