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The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Director, Praveen Sood, has been fixed another one-year extension, arsenic approved connected Wednesday (May 13, 2026) by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) based connected the recommendations of the Selection Committee.
The ACC bid stated that Mr. Sood’s tenure has been extended for a twelvemonth beyond May 24, 2026. The 1986-batch Indian Police Service (IPS) serviceman was earlier granted one-year hold successful May 2025 aft completion of his two-year word arsenic CBI chief.
On Tuesday (May 12, 2026), a high-powered committee chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi met to determine connected the assignment of the adjacent CBI Director. During the meeting, Leader of Opposition successful Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi submitted a dissent note, accusing the authorities of “institutional capture” of the bureau to people governmental opponents, journalists, and critics.
The panel, headed by the Prime Minister, besides includes Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and the Opposition leader. The gathering took spot astatine the Prime Minister’s 7, Lok Kalyan Marg residence and lasted implicit an hour. The one-year hold of the existent CBI Director was acceptable to extremity connected May 24, 2026.
Mr. Gandhi shared his dissent enactment connected his X handle. “Your authorities has repeatedly misused the CBI, intended to beryllium India’s premier investigative agency, to people governmental opponents, journalists, and critics. It is to forestall specified organization seizure that the Leader of Opposition is included successful the Selection Committee. Regrettably, you person continued to contradict maine immoderate meaningful relation successful the process,” helium said.
He said contempt repeated written requests, helium was not provided with the self-appraisal oregon 360-degree reports of the eligible candidates.
“Instead, I was expected to analyse the appraisal records of 69 candidates for the archetypal clip during the Committee meeting. The 360-degree reports were denied to maine outright. A elaborate reappraisal of these records is important to measure each candidate’s past and performance. This deliberate denial of information, without immoderate ineligible basis, makes a mockery of the enactment process and ensures that lone your pre-decided campaigner is selected,” said Mr. Gandhi.
