Supreme Court to hear petition against interim CBI head appointment
New Delhi, Jan 16 (IBNS): The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it would hear a petition challenging M. Nageswara Rao's appointment as the interim CBI chief next week.
Rao took charge last Friday after Alok Verma was removed from the post by a panel headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. After taking charge, he reversed all decisions taken by Verma over the past two days, said reports.
On Monday, an NGO filed a petition in the apex court seeking direction to quash the government's January 10 order to appoint the IPS 1986-batch Odisha cadre Rao as the CBI's interim director.
Reports said the the NGO sought appointment of a regular CBI director following rules.
On January 11, Alok Verma resigned three weeks before retirement, refusing to take charge as chief of fire services after being removed from the post of CBI director.
Verma's resignation came after a high-powered panel transferred him to the Fire Services as Director General, after deciding that as CBI chief, he had "not acted with the integrity expected of him". His transfer came only two days after the Supreme Court reinstated him as CBI chief.
In October, he had been sent on forced leave by the government in a midnight move in which officers of his team were transferred and an interim director took over. Verma challenged the decision in the Supreme Court,
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