Alok Verma was on Thursday removed unceremoniously as the CBI director after a high-powered panel led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi found that he had not been functioning with integrity expected of him.
Verma, whose fixed tenure of two years was to end on January 31, is the first chief in the 55-years of the CBI's history to face such action, officials said.
He has been posted as Director General Fire Service, Civil Defence and Home Guards, under the Union Home Ministry.
The charge of the CBI has been given to additional director M Nageshwar Rao, a government order issued on Thursday evening said.
 

Alok Verma was on Thursday removed unceremoniously as the CBI director after a high-powered panel led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi found that he had not been functioning with integrity expected of him.
Verma, whose fixed tenure of two years was to end on January 31, is the first chief in the 55-years of the CBI's history to face such action, officials said.
He has been posted as Director General Fire Service, Civil Defence and Home Guards, under the Union Home Ministry.
The charge of the CBI has been given to additional director M Nageshwar Rao, a government order issued on Thursday evening said.