Tuesday 10 October 2017

Ex-CBI Director R.K. Raghavan appointed Indian High Commissioner to Cyprus

  • Former Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) chief R.K. Raghavan has been picked up by the Narendra Modi government as India’s high commissioner to Cyprus.
  • Raghavan, 76, who headed a probe that cleared then chief minister Modi of involvement in the 2002 Gujarat riots, was the CBI director from January 1999 to April 2001.
  • After retiring in 2001, Raghavan joined Tata Consultancy Services as a corporate security adviser and also served as consulting adviser to O.P. Jindal’s board of management.
  • Raghavan’s appointment is a political one as ambassadorial posts are usually meant for Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officers.
  • Critics of Raghavan argue that he was responsible in playing down the evidence against Modi of involvement in the 2002 Gujarat riots. The SIT headed by Raghavan in 2012 had given then Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and 57 others a clean chit in the Gulberg case and sought its closure.
  • While the SIT has held that while there is evidence and many of the allegations made in the Zakia Jafri Complaint dated 8.6.2006 are true and correct, in its own assessment, this evidence is not prosecutable. This is not a clean chit to Modi as is being propagated.
Modi as PM rewards his henchman with plum positions irrespective of qualifications, experience or with possibility of any value addition. Now let us look forward for growth & prosperity!

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