The CBI quarrel | Live Updates: Nageshwar Rao Appoints Director

Mr. Jaitley says that the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) has all the elements of the allegations that the agents brought against each other. Thus, in order to maintain the institutional integrity of the IWC, the CAC recommended that they sit on leave until the investigation is complete.

"We will not prejudge who is guilty," he says. If the officers are innocent, they will come back and a special investigation team will investigate the charges against them.

12:10

Sensitive investigation at stake, says Verma at SC

Supreme Court Authorizes Mr. Verma to File Protest Application his dismissal as Director of CBI and posted the case for the hearing on Friday.

In an oral statement in court headed by the Chief Justice of India, Ranjan Gogoi, Mr. Verma stated that he had learned his dismissal only at 6 o'clock in the morning .

He added that the sudden and unexpected turn of events would upset the ongoing investigation in several sensitive cases.

11:40

13 transferred officials

Among the developments, 13 IWC officials have been transferred. These included DIG Manoj Kumar Sinha, who was overseeing the investigation against Mr. Asthana and others, and the investigating officer Ajay Bassi, deputy SP SP S. Gurm.

List of transferred persons:

1. A.K. Bassi, DySP, was transferred from Delhi to Port Blair

2. Manoj Kumar Sinha, HoB / DIG was transferred from Delhi to Nagpur

3. Tarun Gauba, Range DIG & HoB was moved from Chandigarh to Delhi

4. Jasbir Singh, DIG / HoB, SC-I will hold an additional charge of HoB, BS & FC

S. S. Gurm, Addl SP was transferred to Jabalpur

6. K.R. Chaurasia, DIG / HoB

7. Ram Gopal, HoB

8. Satish Dagar, SP

9. Anish Prasad, DIG / SU-I

10. Arun Kumar Sharma, JD (P)

11. A. Sai Manohar, HoZ / JD

12. V. Murugesan, HoZ / AC-II (HQ)

13. Amit Kumar, DIG / HoB

11:10

SC will hear Mr. Verma's call on Friday

The Supreme Court agreed to hear Alok Verma 's petition on Friday. He forwarded the petition to the lawyers Pooja Dhar and Gopal Sankaranarayanan, who were heard by the bench of the CJI.

The prayers sought are three:

(i) Cancel his "forced" transfer because he has many sensitive cases under him.

(ii) Cancel the notification of the DoPT removing him from his duties as Director of CBI.

(iii) cancel the appointment of Mr. Nageshwar Rao as Chief of the CBI.

10:40

The former director moves the SC against the order

Former IWC director Alok Verma contacted the Supreme Court through lawyer Gopal Shankaranarayan.

Meanwhile, lawyer Prashant Bhushan called the order "illegal" and said L & # 39; Hindu that he would challenge it in the Supreme Court on Wednesday.

"As feared and suspected, the government removed the CBI director from his charge, as he sued the corrupt director of the Spl, Rakesh Asthana, who had imposed him CBI while he was conducting an investigation into bribery cases, totally illegal, disputed, "he wrote on Twitter.

10:20

At a certain level, the Central Investigation Bureau (CBI) is about a "turf war", an ego battle between two individuals at the helm. But the unfortunate developments involving the CBI director and his special director reflect a much deeper malaise – a severe rot at the very heart of the first investigative agency. The fact that the IWC has recorded a first information report against its own special director is extraordinary. The most disturbing aspect of the current crisis between the director Alok Verma and the special director Rakesh Asthana is that only one of them will be right. anyway, it is the agency that will be frowned upon.

10:00

Offices of senior officers searched

The offices of Mr. Verma and Mr. Asthana were raided on the orders of IWC "acting" director Nageshwar Rao, an IWC official said on condition of anonymity.

The order of 23 October, issued by order of the Cabinet Appointments Committee, states that Mr. Rao will take care of the duties and functions of the Director of CBI as an "interim measure" with immediate effect.

9:30

IWC Chief Alok Verma on leave and Interim Nageshwar Rao

The Personnel and Training Department issued an order requesting Deputy Director Nageshwar Rao on Tuesday to take over the duties of Acting Director of CBI.

Confirming the order, a senior government official told Alok Kumar Verma, director of the CBI, and his second, Rakesh Asthana, that they were to go on leave.

9:00

CBI names its number 2 Rakesh Asthana in a corruption case

The Central Bureau of Investigation has appointed his second, Rakesh Asthana, accused of corruption, with another agency official and two private persons.

The accused in the judicial information report (13A / 2018) are Mr. Asthana, IBC Deputy Superintendent of Police, Devender Kumar, Dubai-based investment banker Manoj Prasad, and his brother, Somesh Prashad . The complainant paid more than 3 crore bribes to the plaintiff for obtaining compensation in a case against the meat exporter Moin Qureshi and other people, said l & # 39; agency.

The latest IWC initiative is another sign of the escalating war between top executives of the highest agency: IWC Director Alok Verma and Mr Asthana.

Prior to the filing of the complaint, Mr. Asthana lodged a complaint against the IWC Director with the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC), accusing him of being ingested in a corruption case involving members of the the family of RJD chief Lalu Prasad. Subsequently, in a statement, the agency dismissed the charges against the director by Mr. Asthana and said that the special director was himself under investigation in half a dozen cases and was attempting to intimidate officials. who were investigating his role. It is reported that the IWC Director wrote to the CVC on October 18 and 19 about the registered FIR against Mr. Asthana.