Delhi Police chief Alok Verma will head CBI for 2 years
Verma's appointment was approved by Prime Minister Narendra Modi for a period of 2 years.
According to reports, the announcement comes after a huge controversy broke over the appointment of Gujarat officer RK Asthana as the acting chief of the probe agency in December.
Asthana's appointment was challenged in the court by lawyer-activist Prashant Bhushan.
Alok Verma belongs to the 1979 batch IPS officer of the AGMUT (Arunachal Pradesh-Goa-Mizoram and Union Territory) cadre.
He had replaced BS Bassi as the police chief of Delhi in February 2016.
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