CBI Promotes Bhatnagar As Special Director; Anurag, Shashidhar As ADs

Bhatnagar, a 1989-batch IPS officer from the Jharkhand cadre has been serving the country’s premier investigative agency on deputation since 2018. He will hold the post until his superannuation in November 2024 or until further orders, the DoPT said.

The probe agency has also promoted two Joint Directors belonging to the 1994 IPS batch - Manoj Shashidhar and Anurag as Additional Directors.

Shashidhar joined the federal agency in 2020. Prior to his deputation, he was the Inspector General (IG) of Intelligence in Gujarat, his parent cadre. His tenure as the Additional Director would be for three years.

Anurag, from the Tripura cadre, will hold the post until end-July 2023, as he would complete the maximum seven-year deputation tenure allowed for officers as per the DoPT policy. However, the government can make exceptions.

That is exactly what it did in the case of Sharad Agarwal, a 1997-batch Union Territory cadre officer. He has been granted a one-year extension as the joint director of CBI until May 2024, despite completing his full deputation tenure.

With the latest rejig, the federal agency has one Special Director and three Additional Directors under its new chief Praveen Sood, a Karnataka cadre, 1986-batch IPS officer, who was selected for the topmost job last month.

The CBI Director’s post has a fixed tenure of two years.

The CBI investigates high-profile corruption, economic offences cases, apart from crime and other cases assigned by the state High Courts or the Supreme Court.