Mannem Nageswara Rao
Honourable Mannem Nageswara Rao | |
|---|---|
| Former-Director (Interim) of CBI | |
| In office 11 January 2019 – 1 February 2019 | |
| Preceded by | Alok Verma |
| Succeeded by | Rishi Kumar Shukla |
| In office 24 October 2018 – 8 January 2019 | |
| Preceded by | Alok Verma |
| Succeeded by | Alok Verma |
| Police career | |
| Country | India |
| Batch | 1986 |
Mannem Nageswara Rao is the former-interim Director of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) since 11 January 2019 till 1 February 2019. He joined CBI in 2016 and is an Indian Police Service (IPS) officer of 1986 batch and Odisha cadre. He served as Joint Director before being appointed as the Interim Director of CBI for only 22 days.[1]
Rao is from Mangapet village of Warangal district in Telangana State. He is a chemistry post graduate from Osmania University, did his research in Madras IIT, before joining the IPS in 1986.[citation needed].
Corruption allegations
Rao's career has been marked with a number of charges of misusing his office for personal profit. In 2018, as a CBI officer he had allegedly closed investigations against 70 IRS officers implicated in diaries maintained by Sanjay Bhandari, a chartered accountant, who along with the then Joint Commissioner of Income Tax Sallong Yaden in January 2015. A Kolkata-based trading company registered by Rao's wife has allegedly been used for 'laundering and converting' unaccounted income, as per a complaint submitted to former CBI Joint Director A. K. Singh.[2]
In 2019, as a controversial interim chief of the CBI, Rao was also responsible for the contested transfer of the investigating officer who filed a FIR in the high-profile case of many 'bad loans' having been approved by ICICI Bank under director Chanda Kochhar.[3] This was among over 100 transfers made by Rao immediately after taking over as CBI Interim Chief for 22 days.
References
- ^ "M Nageswar Rao Takes Interim Charge As CBI Faces Its Worst Crisis", NDTV, 24 October 2018
- ^ Bhardwaj, Ananya (6 July 2019). "IPS Nageshwar Rao who lost his job as interim CBI chief had these corruption complaints". ThePrint.
- ^ Ahuja, Rajesh (27 January 2019). "Shunted CBI cop in Chanda Kochhar case suspected of leaking info: Sources". Hindustan Times.
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