New Delhi: Former CBI director R.K. Raghavan has been appointed high commissioner to Cyprus, the Ministry of External Affairs has announced.
“He is expected to take up the assignment shortly,” a MEA press release said.
This is considered to be a political move by the NDA government as ambassadorial posts are usually reserved for IFS officers. He is a retired IPS officer of the Tamil Nadu cadre.
Raghavan, who headed the Special Investigation Team that probed the 2002 Gujarat riots, had given a clean chit to the then Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi. He was the CBI director from January 1999 to April 2001,
During his tenure as Tamil Nadu’s Vigilance director, he oversaw probe into corruption cases against AIADMK leader J. Jayalalithaa.
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