{"id":306684,"date":"2018-12-06T13:23:39","date_gmt":"2018-12-06T13:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=306684"},"modified":"2018-12-06T13:23:39","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T13:23:39","slug":"supreme-court-reserves-judgement-on-cbi-director-alok-vermas-plea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/supreme-court-reserves-judgement-on-cbi-director-alok-vermas-plea\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court reserves judgement on CBI Director Alok Verma\u2019s plea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-305446 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Supreme-Court-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"501\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Supreme-Court-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Supreme-Court-633x420.jpg 633w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Supreme-Court.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 501px) 100vw, 501px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Supreme Court on Thursday reserved judgement on the petition filed by Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Director Alok Verma, challenging the government\u2019s decision to divest him of all powers and sending him on leave.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The apex court questioned government&#8217;s move to divest Verma of his powers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">While hearing the plea, the bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi questioned the government\u2019s sudden decision on October 23 night, despite being told by the Attorney General that circumstances culminating in the decision began months before in July. The bench, also comprising Justices S K Kaul and K M Joseph, sought to know why the government failed to consult a larger panel before taking action against the CBI officers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWhy government failed to consult a larger panel before taking action against the CBI officers,\u201d it said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">During the hearing, the apex Court said the government\u2019s decisions should be taken in the interest of the institution.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Gogoi concluded the arguments on behalf of Verma, Centre, Central Vigilance Commission and others who were party in the matter.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Moreover, the top court heard the petition moved by NGO Common Cause which had sought court-monitored SIT probe into allegations of corruption against various CBI officials including Special Director Rakesh Asthana.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Thursday reserved judgement on the petition filed by Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Director Alok Verma, challenging the government\u2019s decision to divest him of all powers and sending him on leave. The apex court questioned government&#8217;s move to divest Verma of his powers. While hearing the plea, the bench headed by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":305446,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[7750,10135,189,10134,134],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306684"}],"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=306684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306685,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306684\/revisions\/306685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/305446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}