{"id":308483,"date":"2019-01-24T07:35:43","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T07:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=308483"},"modified":"2019-01-24T07:35:43","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T07:35:43","slug":"justice-sikri-recuses-himself-from-hearing-plea-on-interim-cbi-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/justice-sikri-recuses-himself-from-hearing-plea-on-interim-cbi-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice Sikri recuses himself from hearing plea on interim CBI chief"},"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-308036 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/A-K-sikri-300x164.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/A-K-sikri-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/A-K-sikri.jpg 602w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Justice AK Sikri on Thursday recused himself from hearing a plea filed by an NGO against the appointment of M Nageshwar Rao as the interim director of CBI.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Reports said, Justice Sikri asked the matter to be listed on Friday\u00a0for hearing before a different bench.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This came days after Chief Justice of India\u00a0Ranjan Gogoi\u00a0also recused himself from hearing the plea because he was a member of the high-powered selection committee that will select the 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;\">As the matter came up for hearing, Justice Sikri told senior advocate Dushyant Dave, appearing for petitioner NGO Common Cause, that he would not like to hear the matter and was recusing himself.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;You know me well and understand my position. I can&#8217;t hear this matter,&#8221; Justice Sikri said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Justice Sikri was part of the high-powered selection panel which had removed CBI Director Alok Verma.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Nageshwar Rao was made the interim CBI director after the Selection Committee removed Alok Verma as CBI chief.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The three-panel committee, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, comprised Justice Sikri and Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge as members.<\/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, Common Cause, in its petition filed through lawyer Prashant Bhushan, seeking a direction to cancel the government&#8217;s order appointing Rao as the acting director of the agency.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justice AK Sikri on Thursday recused himself from hearing a plea filed by an NGO against the appointment of M Nageshwar Rao as the interim director of CBI. Reports said, Justice Sikri asked the matter to be listed on Friday\u00a0for hearing before a different bench. This came days after Chief Justice of India\u00a0Ranjan Gogoi\u00a0also recused [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":308036,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[10564,7746,10614,189],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308483"}],"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=308483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308484,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308483\/revisions\/308484"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/308036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}