Mumbai: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Saturday appointed former Director General of Police (DGP) of Rajasthan Ajit Singh as the head of Anti-Corruption Unit.
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Ajit Singh will take charge of the office ahead of 2018 season of IPL and will be based out of BCCI headquarters at Cricket Centre, Mumbai, the BCCI announced on Saturday.
A 1982 Rajasthan cadre IPS officer, Singh retired as the state's Director General of Police on November 30, 2017.
Apart from this, former Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar has been retained as an advisor to the BCCI's anti-corruption unit till May 31.
The BCCI has also engaged the ICC Anti-Corruption Unit like previous years for the upcoming season of IPL. Both BCCI and ICC will closely work towards keeping the highest level of compliance for the Indian Premier League.
Recently, the ACU of BCCI was given a task to ascertain if Indian paceman Mohammed Shami was involved in match-fixing or not.
Shami was found innocent in the primary probe carried out by the wing.
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