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A high-powered committee chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi met present connected Tuesday (May 12, 2026) evening to determine connected the assignment of the adjacent Director of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
Other members of the important sheet — Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Leader of Opposition successful Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi — besides attended the gathering astatine the Prime Minister's 7, Lok Kalyan Marg residence.
The tenure of the existent CBI Director, Praveen Sood, is acceptable to extremity connected May 24, 2026.
The gathering lasted implicit an hour, sources said, but determination was nary authoritative connection connected the discussions.
The determination connected the adjacent CBI Director is apt to beryllium announced soon, they said.
The cardinal committee is liable for finalising the enactment of adjacent CBI Director. The enactment is done from a sheet of officers.
The sources indicated that respective elder IPS officers from antithetic States are portion of the database of officers being considered for the apical CBI post. Some of the names of IPS officers that are understood to beryllium nether information see Parag Jain, Shatrujeet Kapoor, Yogesh Gupta, GP Singh, and Praveer Ranjan.
The premier probe bureau is presently handling a fig of high-profile and politically delicate cases.
