Rakesh Asthana, the former senior official of the Central Bureau of Investigation, has been appointed the Commissioner of the Delhi Police.
Mr Asthana, who had a controversial stint in the CBI, was removed in 2018 and was made the chief of the Border Security Force.
In 2017, then CBI chief Alok Verma had opposed the appointment of Mr Asthana as a Special Director.
The official ran into controversy soon after with his bitter public feud with Mr Verma and was subject to long investigation in a bribery case in which he was allegedly involved. He got a clean chit from the agency in February 2020.
