Keeping politics out of CBI will be Subodh Kumar Jaiswal's major challenge

CBI has many challenges ahead of it. The most recent is the Narada scam, which re­lates to a sting operation by the Narada News website in 2016 that had allegedly shown TMC leaders accepting bribes

With the appointment of Subodh Kumar Jaiswal (58) as director of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), the investigative agency is headed for a phase of tranquility and much-needed quietude, senior police officers say. Jaiswal has been appointed for two years, the term fixed for CBI directors.

“No rabbits out of the hat. He (Jaiswal) is not a person to challenge the government or adopt a posture of ‘aa bail mujhe maar’ (in­vite confrontation). He is a man who is known to go with the flow,” says a senior IPS officer who retired as police commissioner.

Officers concede that CBI