{"id":308146,"date":"2019-01-16T14:07:13","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T14:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=308146"},"modified":"2019-01-16T14:07:13","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T14:07:13","slug":"pm-headed-panel-to-meet-on-january-24-to-decide-on-new-cbi-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/pm-headed-panel-to-meet-on-january-24-to-decide-on-new-cbi-director\/","title":{"rendered":"PM-headed panel to meet on January 24 to decide on new CBI Director"},"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-299861 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Narendra-Modi-300x217.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"459\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/Narendra-Modi-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/Narendra-Modi-324x235.jpg 324w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/Narendra-Modi-581x420.jpg 581w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/Narendra-Modi.jpg 591w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 459px) 100vw, 459px\" \/><\/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 Selection Committee headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet on January 24 to appoint the new CBI Director, sources said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge wrote to the prime minister, demanding early holding of the meeting of the high-powered panel to appoint a regular CBI Director.\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 Congress has been attacking Prime Minister Modi for not appointing a regular 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;\">Earlier the petition was filed by Delhi-based NGO Common Cause in the Supreme Court seeking direction to quash the January 10 order by the Centre appointing Rao as the interim Director of the CBI.<\/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 had 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;\">M Nageswara Rao was made to continue as interim director hours after the removal of Alok Verma from the post of CBI Director.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The high-powered Selection Committee headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet on January 24 to appoint the new CBI Director, sources said. Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge wrote to the prime minister, demanding early holding of the meeting of the high-powered panel to appoint a regular CBI Director.\u00a0 The Congress has been attacking Prime Minister [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":299861,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[10532,10619,1582,316],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308146"}],"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=308146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308147,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308146\/revisions\/308147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/299861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}