Rishi Kumar Shukla takes charge as the Director of CBI

Rishi Kumar Shukla takes charge as the Director of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). A 1983-batch IPS officer, Shukla has taken charge at a time the agency is busy in a dirty battle of a turf war with the Kolkata Police which has spiralled into a political slugfest between the Centre and West Bengal Government.

The arrival of 58-year old 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 to the Supreme Court to challenge the action of the West Bengal government in ponzi scam cases.