New Delhi: Senior IPS officer YC Modi, who was part of a Supreme Court-appointed team that probed the 2002 Gujarat riots cases, on Monday took over as NIA chief, succeeding Sharad Kumar.
In an official statement, the counter terror probe agency said, Yogesh Chander Modi, a 1984 batch IPS officer of Assam-Meghalaya cadre, took over as Director General of the National Investigation Agency (NIA).
He succeeded Sharad Kumar, a 1979 batch IPS officer of Haryana Cadre, who completed his tenure. Modi will hold the post till his superannuation on May 31, 2021, according to an order from the Department of Personnel and Training.