Who is M Nageshwar Rao?

At CBI, Nageshwar Rao was No. 3 in the pecking order and handling the Chandigarh branch along with certain branches in South India.

M Nageshwar Rao, newly appointed interim director of CBI.

The government late on Tuesday night appointed CBI additional director M Nageshwar Rao as interim director of the agency after removing incumbent director Alok Verma in the face allegations of corruption leveled against him by his deputy Rakesh Asthana. A 1986 batch officer of the Odisha cadre, Rao has served in various capacities in his cadre state before he became a joint director at CBI and was recently promoted as additional director. His last responsibility in Odisha was as additional director of railway police.

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At CBI, he was No. 3 in the pecking order and handling the Chandigarh branch along with certain branches in South India. Rao hails from the Borenarsapur village in Warangal District of Andhra Pradesh. He did his post graduation from the Osmania University, following which he did his research at the IIT Madras.

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Rao took charge as interim Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) director on Wednesday. The official statement read as, “the ACC has approved that during the period of the subsistence of the aforesaid interim measure, cited in reference above, M Nageshwar Rao, IPS, presently working as Joint Director, CBI, shall look after duties and functions of Director CBI and shall take over the duties and functions with immediate effect.”

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