Centre to appoint Sanjay Kumar Mishra as the CIO to supervise CBI and ED

New Delhi, August 24

The Union government is mulling the idea of creating a new post of chief investigation officer of India (CIO) for the outgoing Enforcement Directorate Chief Sanjay Kumar Mishra. 

Mishra is serving his second term as the chief of the ED. 

In May this year, the Supreme Court pulled up the Union government over its repeated extensions to Mishra who is going to demit office on September 15. 

The post of CIO has been thought over by the Government to whom the chiefs of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and Enforcement Directorate (ED) will report. 

Mishra who could possibly take over as the first CIO was recently allowed to continue in the post of ED chief until September 15 by the Supreme Court in the “larger public and national interest” while turning down the Centre’s plea to give him a third extension of one year.

An IRS officer of 1984 batch, Mishra was first appointed as the Chief of Ed for a period of two years in 2018.