New Delhi: Deputy inspector-general (DIG) in CBI Tarun Gauba was on Wednesday prematurely repatriated to his state cadre of Uttar Pradesh.

“Approval of the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) is hereby conveyed for premature repatriation of Tarun Gauba, IPS (UP 2001) , DIG, CBI to his state cadre,” the government said. Mr Gauba was looking after the case against then CBI’s special director Rakesh Asthana and this is the second major shunting of an officer from the country’s premier agency, within last one week.

On July 5, they had removed CBI additional director M. Nageswar Rao and posted him as director-general fire services, civil services and home guard.

Mr Rao, a 1986-batch Odisha cadre IPS officer, was first given charge as interim director of the CBI after the government in October last year, sent CBI director Alok Verma on leave.