{"id":307974,"date":"2019-01-11T08:20:30","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T08:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=307974"},"modified":"2019-01-11T08:20:30","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T08:20:30","slug":"m-nageswara-rao-takes-over-cbi-directors-duties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/m-nageswara-rao-takes-over-cbi-directors-duties\/","title":{"rendered":"M. Nageswara Rao takes over CBI Director\u2019s duties"},"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-307312 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/nageshwar-rao-300x269.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/nageshwar-rao-300x269.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/nageshwar-rao-468x420.jpg 468w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/nageshwar-rao.jpg 511w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 529px) 100vw, 529px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Additional Director M. Nageswara Rao on Friday took charge of the office of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Director, a day after removal of Alok Verma by high-powered committee headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rao was appointed as the interim director of CBI after the government\u2019s intervention in the public spat between CBI director Alok Verma and special director Rakesh Asthana.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rao, a 1986-batch IPS officer from the Odisha cadre had joined the CBI as a joint director in 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rao has been again given the charge after Alok Verma was on Thursday removed from the post barely 48 hours after re-joining as CBI Director.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A 2-1 decision by a high-powered committee headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi with its other two members being Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge and Justice A.K. Sikri on Thursday decided to ease out Verma from the post of CBI Director.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Additional Director M. Nageswara Rao on Friday took charge of the office of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Director, a day after removal of Alok Verma by high-powered committee headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Rao was appointed as the interim director of CBI after the government\u2019s intervention in the public spat between CBI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":307312,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[10532,10340],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307974"}],"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=307974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307975,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307974\/revisions\/307975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/307312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}