Massive recruitment drive in ED
Will ED Chief Sanjay Mishra another extension
All eyes are set on the Enforcement Directorate whether its Director Sanjay Mishra gets further extension in tenure.
He is due to retire in November this year and has served four years. Though the government’s decision was challenged in the Supreme Court which is pending.
In the meanwhile, the government amended the law enabling it to extend the tenure of Directors of ED and CBI chiefs up to five years. There are reports that Mishra’s tenure may be extended for another year under the amended law. The government had amended the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) Act and Delhi Special Police Establishment (DSPE) Act to empower itself to extend the tenure of Directors of the CBI and ED for five years.
Reports emanating from North Block housing the Finance ministry indicate that the ED is being strengthened further in the wake of its massive workload.
It transpires that more than two dozen top level posts in the ED will be filled shortly. It has been decided that eight new Joint Directors, four Additional Directors and three Special Directors may be added to the battery of senior officials of ED in the next couple of weeks. The ED has been facing a huge man-power crunch as it is conducting raids and searches almost on a daily basis across the country.
During Sanjay Mishra’s four year tenure a large number of high-profile cases surfaced involving politicians and business houses. It included former Yes Bank MD & CEO Rana Kapoor, ICICI Bank former MD-CEO Chanda Kochhar’s husband Deepak Kochhar, deportation and arrest of British middleman Christian Michel James in AgustaWestland scam, former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Kamal Nath’s nephew Ratul Puri and former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh among others.
