New Delhi: R K Gaur has hung his boots after 26 years of service at the Agency. Gaur was considered to be the backbone of the Central Bureau of Investigation’s information wing.
He was the face of the CBI in a number of media briefings, and handled many tricky situations during his service at the agency, which he had joined as an inspector on deputation from the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) in 1997.
He had retired in 2020 as a deputy superintendent of police and press information officer, but the then CBI director Rishi Kumar Shukla (Retd IPS: 1983: MP), who knew about Gaur’s knowledge on the functioning of the central probe agency, asked him to stay and engaged him as a consultant on contract in its media section.
Shukla’s successor, Subodh Jaiswal (Retd IPS: 1985: MH), also asked him to stay till his tenure. Gaur’s contract ended this January.
