PM Modi is heading the committee to select the next director of the CBI. (File)

New Delhi:

Chief Justice of India NV Ramana reached Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s house for a meeting of the committee headed by the PM, comprising him and Leader of Opposition Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, to select the next director of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

The committee is considering Indian Police Service (IPS) officers from four senior-most batches (1984-87) to be the next CBI chief.

Some of the frontrunners are: YC Modi, a 1984-batch IPS officer from the Assam-Meghalaya cadre and Director General of the National Investigation Agency; Rakesh Asthana, Gujarat cadre Director General of the Border Security Force, and SS Deswal, Haryana cadre Director General of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police.

1985-batch IPS officers including Uttar Pradesh DGP HC Awasthi, Kerala DGP Loknath Behera, Railway Protection Force DG Arun Kumar and Central Industrial Security Force DG SK Jaiswal are also in contention.