Questioning his appointment, AAP legislators raised this issue under rule-55 of the Delhi assembly on the first day of its monsoon session.
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Making Rakesh Asthana Delhi Police chief ‘blatant disregard’ of SC verdict: Congress
Addressing a press conference at the party headquarters, Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera said: “Rakesh Asthana, the controversial IPS officer and the blue-eyed boy of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is back in the news.”
Rakesh Asthana, former CBI Special Director, appointed Delhi Police Commissioner
Asthana, a former CBI special director, is 1984-batch Indian Police Service officer of Gujarat cadre.
Centre to put hold on Ex-CBI Chief Alok Verma’s retirement benefits
Former CBI boss Alok Verma was sacked as the chief of Central Bureau of Investigation earlier this month. The Home Ministry has decided to take action against him for not taking charge as Director General, Fire Services after he was sacked from the post of CBI chief. All retirement benefits[Read More…]
CJI Gogoi nominates Justice Sikri to represent him in high-powered panel on Verma
New Delhi, Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi on Wednesday nominated Justice A.K. Sikri to represent him in the meeting of a high powered committee that would take up government’s move to divest CBI Director Alok Verma of his powers, functions and duties including supervisory role in the wake of a complaint[Read More…]
Top CBI official seeks court-monitored probe in Asthana bribery case
New Delhi: A top CBI official, Manish Kumar Sinha, on Monday moved the Supreme Court seeking a court-monitored SIT probe into the allegation of bribe against Special CBI Director Rakesh Asthana in the meat exporter Moin Qureshi case. The petition refers to charges of bribe being made to a Union[Read More…]
CBI officer moves SC challenging transfer to Andamans
New Delhi: CBI officer A.K. Bassi, who was investigating an alleged bribery case against the controversial Special Director Rakesh Asthana, on Tuesday moved the Supreme Court challenging his transfer to Port Blair in Andaman and Nicobar Islands and claimed that he has evidence of bribes being paid to Asthana in[Read More…]
CBI mess because of PM’s desperate Rafale cover-up: Congress
Mumbai: The opposition Congress on Wednesday launched a sharp attack on Prime Minister Modi accusing him of “a desperate cover-up attempt” over the Rafale deal and pushing the country’s premier probe agency, the CBI, into complete disarray. Speaking to mediapersons here, Congress national spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala said: “A scared and[Read More…]
Verma moves SC challenging removal as CBI director, cites tacit government interference
New Delhi: Hours after the government stripped him of his powers, CBI Director Alok Verma on Wednesday moved the Supreme Court challenging the Centres decision as “patently illegal and unconstitutional” and sought quashing of the order. He has also suggested that the government may not be in agreement with the[Read More…]
Rakesh Asthana becomes CBI Special Director; Gurbachan Singh new IB Special Director
The government on Sunday has promoted senior IPS officers, Rakesh Asthana and Gurbachan Singh as special directors of the central bureau of Investigation (CBI) and intelligence bureau (IB) respectively in a key bureaucratic reshuffle. While officers Deepak Kumar Mishra and Sudeep Lakhtakia have been elevated as special DG in the[Read More…]
Govt clears Delhi Police Chief Alok Verma for CBI chief despite Congress opposition
Delhi Police Commissioner Alok Verma was on Thursday appointed as the next chief of the Bentral Bureau of Investigation (CBI). His appointment was approved for a period of 2 years by a three-member selection panel headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and comprising Chief Justice of India Jagdish Singh Khehar and[Read More…]
PIL filed in SC against Rakesh Asthana’s appointment as CBI’s interim boss
A PIL was filed on Monday in the Supreme Court challenging the appointment of Rakesh Asthana as the interim director of the CBI. The plea, filed by NGO Common Cause and activist lawyer Prashant Bhushan, has alleged that the Centre took a series of steps in a “completely mala fide,[Read More…]