{"id":10846,"date":"2023-05-14T07:07:29","date_gmt":"2023-05-14T01:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=10846"},"modified":"2025-03-29T23:01:44","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T17:31:44","slug":"how-is-the-director-of-the-central-bureau-of-investigation-cbi-appointed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/how-is-the-director-of-the-central-bureau-of-investigation-cbi-appointed\/","title":{"rendered":"How is the Director of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) appointed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Appointment of the CBI Director:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The CBI director is appointed <strong>according to<\/strong> provisions under the <strong>Delhi Special Police Establishment Act (1946)<\/strong> <strong>and amendments<\/strong> therein brought <strong>by the Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act, 2013.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The appointment is <strong>made by the Centre on recommendation<\/strong> by a <strong>three-member Appointment Committee.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The appointment committee <strong>comprises the Prime Minister as the chairperson<\/strong>, the <strong>leader of the opposition (LoP) in the Lok Sabha<\/strong> and the <strong>Chief Justice of India, or a Supreme Court judge<\/strong> nominated by him.<\/li>\n<li><strong>If there is no recognised LoP<\/strong>, then <strong>the leader of the single largest party<\/strong> is included in the committee.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Central Vigilance Commission Act<\/strong> 2003 <strong>fixed the tenure<\/strong> of the CBI director <strong>at 2 years.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Supreme Court Directions:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The apex court, in a 2019 order, mandated that <strong>no officer with less than six months&#8217; tenure remaining<\/strong> <strong>can be considered for the post of CBI chief<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The court also ruled that the <strong>director is to remain in office for &#8216;not less than 2 years&#8217;<\/strong> and can be transferred only with the consent of the appointing committee.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>About Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI):<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the <strong>premier investigative agency of India.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The agency was <strong>established in 1963<\/strong> by the Indian government as a result of the <strong>recommendation of the Santhanam Committee<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>CBI is <strong>not a statutory body<\/strong>. It <strong>derives its power<\/strong> to investigate <strong>from the Delhi Special Police Establishment Act 1946.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Control:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It operates <strong>under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Personnel<\/strong>, Public Grievances and Pensions.<\/li>\n<li>However, <strong>for investigation of offences under the Prevention of Corruption Act<\/strong>, the <strong>CBI vests superintendence to the Central Vigilance Commission<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Functions<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Initially, it was <strong>set up to investigate corruption in government departments<\/strong> and public sector undertakings.<\/li>\n<li>However, over the years, <strong>its jurisdiction has expanded to cover<\/strong> a wide range of cases, including <strong>economic offences, cyber crimes, organized crimes<\/strong>, and <strong>special crimes.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC)?\u00a0\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p>Central Vigilance Commission was set up with the aim to exercise superintendence over vigilance administration of the organisations in respect of which the executive powers of Government of India extended.\u00a0 It was conceptualised as an apex Integrity Institution, having complete independence and autonomy in its functions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestatesman.com\/india\/pm-modi-led-committee-holds-meeting-for-appointment-of-new-cbi-director-cvc-lokpal-1503181206.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>PM Modi-led committee holds meeting for appointment of new CBI director, CVC, Lokpal<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The appointment of CBI Director is made by the Centre on recommendation by a three-member Appointment Committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10847,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10846","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}