Rajiv Singh, 1993 batch IPS officer of Tripura cadre, who was heading investigations in the Rs 13,000-crore Punjab National Bank (PNB) scam involving jewellers Nirav Modi and Mehul Choksi, was “prematurely repatriated” from the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday, 24 May.
Singh was the Joint Director of Bank Securities and Fraud Cell of the CBI, and had been heading banking fraud probes like the PNB scam and Chanda Kochhar’s case.
Along with Singh, four other bureaucrats were also repatriated "upon request of the respective state governments," a CBI circular said.
The three other officers who are transferred back to their home cadres include Anish Prasad (DIG) and SP K Gopal Krishna Rao of Tripura cadre and Nina Singh (Joint Director of Special Crime Zone) of Rajasthan.
As per the notice, the reshuffling is being done on request of the newly-formed Bharatiya Janata Party government in Tripura and the Vasundhara Raje-led administration in Rajasthan.
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