{"id":309255,"date":"2019-02-12T07:17:11","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T07:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=309255"},"modified":"2019-02-12T07:17:11","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T07:17:11","slug":"sc-holds-m-nageswara-rao-guilty-of-contempt-of-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/sc-holds-m-nageswara-rao-guilty-of-contempt-of-court\/","title":{"rendered":"SC holds M Nageswara Rao guilty of contempt of Court"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Supreme Court on Tuesday held former CBI interim director M Nageswara Rao guilty of contempt, rejecting his apology for transferring the investigating officer probing the Bihar shelter home rape case against a top court order.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Court sentenced him to sit in the court till the rising of the day and imposed a fine of Rs. 1 lakh.<\/span><\/p>\n

The bench headed by CJI Ranjan Gogoi\u00a0called Rao’s attitude brazen.<\/span><\/p>\n

Attorney General K K Venugopal, appearing for Rao, made a fervent plea for leniency, saying that Rao’s decision to transfer shelter officer was an ‘error.<\/span><\/p>\n

The bench said, \u201cwe did not understand how Rao could relieve the investigating officer without taking the court into confidence.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

On Monday, Rao had admitted that he committed a “mistake” in transferring former joint director AK Sharma and apologised to the Supreme Court and offered unconditional and unqualified apology, saying he had no intention to circumvent its orders.<\/span><\/p>\n

On February 7,\u00a0 the bench, came down heavily on CBI for transferring its former Joint Director A K Sharma, who was probing Bihar’s shelter home case, out of the agency in violation of the court’s order and directed its then interim director M Nageswara Rao to personally appear before it on February 12.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I sincerely realise my mistake and tender my unconditional and unequivocal apology to this court. I specially state I have not willfully violated the order of this court,\u201d Rao had said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Apart from Rao, the bench also sought appearance of all other CBI officers who were involved in the transfer process of Sharma on February 12.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Supreme Court on Tuesday held former CBI interim director M Nageswara Rao guilty of contempt, rejecting his apology for transferring the investigating officer probing the Bihar shelter home rape case against a top court order. The Court sentenced him to sit in the court till the rising of the day and imposed a fine […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":305446,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[10340,134],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309255"}],"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=309255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309256,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309255\/revisions\/309256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/305446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}