{"id":304594,"date":"2018-10-23T14:29:10","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T14:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=304594"},"modified":"2018-10-23T14:32:48","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T14:32:48","slug":"cbi-suspends-dsp-devender-kumar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/cbi-suspends-dsp-devender-kumar\/","title":{"rendered":"CBI suspends DSP Devender Kumar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-300138 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/cbi-300x287.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"489\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/cbi-300x287.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/cbi-439x420.jpg 439w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/cbi.jpg 525w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 489px) 100vw, 489px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday suspended\u00a0Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Devender Kumar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A Delhi court granted Kumar seven days of CBI remand, in connection with bribery allegations involving agency&#8217;s Special Director Rakesh Asthana.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The CBI said \u201cKumar was being suspended.\u00a0This comes after a Delhi court remanded him in the agency&#8217;s custody for a week\u00a0in a bribery case.\u00a0Devender Kumar is the second-in-command to CBI special director Rakesh Asthana, who is the prime accused in the same bribery case.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">CBI had told the high court that Kumar was part of an alleged extortion racket being run in the garb of the investigation in Qureshi&#8217;s case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Devender Kumar, who was earlier the investigating officer in a case involving meat exporter Moin Qureshi, was arrested on Monday by the CBI on the allegation that he forged the statement of Sathish Babu Sana, who had alleged to have paid bribe of over Rs 2 crore to get relief in the case.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Earlier in the day, Kumar had moved the Delhi High Court, challenging his arrest.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday suspended\u00a0Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Devender Kumar. A Delhi court granted Kumar seven days of CBI remand, in connection with bribery allegations involving agency&#8217;s Special Director Rakesh Asthana.\u00a0 The CBI said \u201cKumar was being suspended.\u00a0This comes after a Delhi court remanded him in the agency&#8217;s custody for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":300138,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[435,7721,7722,7723],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304594"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304594"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304597,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304594\/revisions\/304597"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/300138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}