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Vijay Shankar to take charge as CBI Director

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Vijay Shankar

NEW DELHI: Vijay Shankar, who has been appointed Director of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), brings rich experience to the top post of the agency. He has served in the premier investigating agency in different capacities for nearly nine years. Mr. Shankar will take charge on Monday, official sources said on Saturday.

As an Additional Director in the CBI for about two years, Mr. Shankar had prepared the ground for facilitating the extradition of underworld don and Mumbai blasts case accused, Abu Salem, and his companion, Monica Bedi, a Bollywood startlet, from Portugal. His visits to Lisbon were aimed at understanding the complex legal and diplomatic requirements, completing voluminous paper work and handing over evidence in key cases against Abu Salem. They were brought to India last month from Lisbon.

He also guided probe in Bilkis Banu case and Telgi scam as well as handled the legal complexities in the Babri Masjid demolition case, in which top BJP-VHP brass figure as accused persons.

Probes into Lucknow-based poetess Madhumita Shukla and Gaya engineer Satyendra Dubey murder cases were handled by Mr. Shankar during his 28-month long tenure as Additional Director in the CBI, where he also supervised special crimes and economic offences wings of the agency. A meetin of the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet presided over by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday night put its seal of approval on Mr. Shankar's appointment.

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