Chowdary, a 1978-batch officer, on Friday took charge at his North block office in the finance ministry. He will have a tenure of only three months. His name was cleared by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He is the son-in-law of Late.Pinnamaneni KoteswaraRao former ZP Chairman , Krishna District.
He has earlier served as the Director General of I-T (Investigations) in the national capital where he headed a number of high-profile tax probes, including the 2G spectrum allocation case and the HSBC Geneva taxpayers list along with a number of cases dealing with black money and tax evasion.