Union home secretary Anil Goswami resigned on Wednesday, hours after he admitted that he had called up CBI officers to dissuade them from summoning former Union minister Matang Sinh for questioning in Kolkata and then arresting him in the Saradha chit fund scam.Goswami will be succeeded by L C Goyal, a 1979 batch IAS officer belonging to the Kerala cadre, who was secretary, rural development ministry. Goyal has earlier served as joint secretary (internal security) in the home ministry from 2002 to 2007. He will have a fixed tenure of two years.
Goswami's acknowledgement that he had tried to intervene in the Saradha probe on behalf of Sinh came at his meeting with home minister Rajnath Singh here on Wednesday. He was called by Singh on his return from an official tour to Jammu on Tuesday evening to clarify why he had intervened on behalf of Sinh.
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