{"id":307958,"date":"2019-01-10T15:12:51","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T15:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=307958"},"modified":"2019-01-10T15:12:51","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T15:12:51","slug":"alok-verma-removed-as-cbi-director-by-pm-narendra-modi-led-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/alok-verma-removed-as-cbi-director-by-pm-narendra-modi-led-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"Alok Verma removed as CBI Director by PM Narendra Modi-led committee"},"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-305599 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/alok-verma-300x222.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"589\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/alok-verma-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/alok-verma-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/alok-verma-485x360.jpg 485w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/alok-verma-568x420.jpg 568w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/alok-verma.jpg 673w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 589px) 100vw, 589px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A high-powered committee headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday removed Alok Verma as CBI director. The decision has been taken barely two days after the Supreme Court reinstated the officer, who was sent on forced leave by the government following a public spat with his deputy 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 high-powered selected committee met for over two hours to decide the fate of Alok Verma. The select committee\u00a0comprised Prime Minister Modi, CJI nominee Justice AK\u00a0Sikri and Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Notably, it was 2-1 against Verma at the end as Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge opposed the move.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Alok Verma, who re-joined office on Wednesday, had revoked most of the transfers done by M Nageshwar Rao, who was appointed as the interim CBI chief in his absence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Supreme Court had on January 8 reinstated Verma as CBI Director. However, it restrained him from taking any policy decision until the high-powered committee takes a decision on allegations against him.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A high-powered committee headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday removed Alok Verma as CBI director. The decision has been taken barely two days after the Supreme Court reinstated the officer, who was sent on forced leave by the government following a public spat with his deputy Rakesh Asthana.\u00a0 The high-powered selected committee met [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":305599,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[10563,7750,10532,10564,1582,316],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307958"}],"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=307958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307959,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307958\/revisions\/307959"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/305599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}