Anil Sinha or Anil Kumar Sinha is a Bihar Cadre Indian Police Service officer of the 1979 batch and the current Director of the Central Bureau of Investigation since December 2014.
Education
Anil possesses a post-graduate degree in psychology and an Master of Philosophy degree in strategic studies. He is an alumnus of the prestigious Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He also attended the National Defence College, India.
Career
He has earlier served as DIG and IG in Special Protection Group, New Delhi, and Additional Secretary in Central Vigilance Commission. Anil held several positions in his State cadre in Vigilance & Anti-Corruption, Administration, Special Branch & other Divisions as SP, DIG, IG & ADG. He has served as Additional Director-General of Police (Law & Order) and thereafter as Additional Directorate General, he also headed the Vigilance Investigation Bureau. He has been associated with the investigations of a number of sensitive cases, including a large number of trap cases and Disproportionate Assets Cases against corrupt public servants.
Anil Kumar Sinha was also part of a core team of the then Master in Surgery Nitish Kumar, when he introduced speedy trials to ensure convictions of over 50,000 criminals in his first term.
He was then promoted to Additional Directorate General (Law and Order), and monitored the implementation of Bihar Special Courts Acting 2009 that allowed seizure of property of corruption-accused even during trial.