Rahul Navin appointed as director of Enforcement Directorate
Navin served as the acting chief of the central law enforcement agency since September 2023 when his predecessor’s tenure ended.
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The Centre on Wednesday appointed Rahul Navin, an Indian Revenue Service officer of the 1993 batch, as the director of the Enforcement Directorate.
Navin has been appointed the Enforcement Directorate director for a period of two years, the department of personnel and training said.
He was appointed as the acting chief of the central law enforcement agency in September 2023 when the tenure of Sanjay Kumar Mishra ended.
In July 2023, Navin’s predecessor Mishra was granted an extension till September 2023 by the Supreme Court in the “larger public interest”. This came after the court held that two extensions granted to Mishra by the Union government were illegal.
Mishra had been appointed as the Enforcement Directorate director for a period of two years on November 19, 2018. His tenure was extended in 2020 for a year by the Centre.
Following this, the non-governmental organisation Common Cause filed a public interest litigation, seeking for the extension order to be set aside as they claimed that Mishra’s three-year tenure violated Section 25 of the Central Vigilance Commission Act.
In September 2021, the court directed the Union government not to extend Mishra’s tenure further.
However, the Centre introduced two ordinances to ensure that the directors of the Enforcement Directorate and the Central Bureau of Investigation could have tenures of up to five years. The ordinance allowed...
