{"id":308061,"date":"2019-01-14T13:22:45","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T13:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=308061"},"modified":"2019-01-14T13:22:45","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T13:22:45","slug":"m-nageswar-raos-appointment-as-interim-cbi-director-challenged-in-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/m-nageswar-raos-appointment-as-interim-cbi-director-challenged-in-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"M Nageswar Rao&#8217;s appointment as interim CBI director challenged in Supreme Court"},"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=\"493\" height=\"442\" 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: 493px) 100vw, 493px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The appointment of M Nageswar Rao as the interim Director of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) was challenged by Delhi-based NGO Common Cause in the Supreme Court on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The NGO has approached the top court through senior advocate Prashant Bhushan.<\/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 made to continue as interim director hours after the removal of Alok Verma from the post of 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;\">Soon after resuming control as interim CBI director, Rao reverted all transfer decisions taken by Alok Verma restoring the position of officials as on January 8.<\/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;\">A 2-1 decision by a high-powered selection committee headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi with its other two members being Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge and Justice A.K. Sikri on January 10 decided to ease out Verma from the post of CBI Director.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The appointment of M Nageswar Rao as the interim Director of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) was challenged by Delhi-based NGO Common Cause in the Supreme Court on Monday. The NGO has approached the top court through senior advocate Prashant Bhushan. Rao was made to continue as interim director hours after the removal of Alok [&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":[7751,10584,3517],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308061"}],"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=308061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308062,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308061\/revisions\/308062"}],"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=308061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}