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Acting ED Chief Rahul Navin Appointed Full-Time Director For 2 Years

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OB Bureau

New Delhi: The Central government on Wednesday appointed acting Enforcement Directorate (ED) chief Rahul Navin as full-time director for two years.

“The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved the appointment of Shri Rahul Navin, IRS (IT:93074), Special Director, ED as Director of Enforcement in the Directorate of Enforcement for a period of two years with effect from the date of assumption of charge of the post, or until further orders, whichever is earlier,” stated an order from India government’s Department of Personnel & Training.

Navin was appointed as acting ED chief after the Supreme Court ruled that repeated extensions to Sanjay Kumar Mishra as director of the central probe agency was ‘illegal’.

In a scathing verdict, the top court had pulled up the Central government for handing Mishra repeated extensions and questioned if the entire department was “full of incompetent people” except for its incumbent chief.

It was then that Navin, a 1993-batch IRS officer, was named ED’s acting director last September.

During his tenure as interim ED director, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren were arrested in money-laundering cases under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).

OB Bureau

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