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Rishi Kumar Shukla new CBI Chief

IANS New Delhi

Last Updated : Feb 02 2019 | 5:40 PM IST

The government on Saturday appointed Rishi Kumar Shukla, a 1983-batch IPS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre, as new chief of the Central Bureau of Investigation.

His appointment came after the high-level selection committee headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi met twice in the last nine days to select the name from a list of over 70 candidates for the investigating agency's top job.

--IANS

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