Alok Verma was removed as CBI chief on January 10 barely 48 hours after he was reinstated by the Supreme Court.
A meeting of the high-powered committee led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to select a new CBI director is underway. The meeting comes two weeks after Alok Verma was ousted from the post amid a months-long crisis in the probe agency. The committee also includes Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi and Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge. The CBI chief has a fixed tenure of two years.
Verma, who was engaged in a bitter fight with former CBI Special Director Rakesh Asthana over corruption charges, was removed as CBI chief on January 10, barely 48 hours after he was reinstated by the Supreme Court.
In a 2-1 verdict (the lone dissenter being Kharge), the selection committee held that it was against Verma’s continuance as CBI chief in light of the Central Vigilance Commission’s report and “the extremely serious nature of observations made by the CVC against Verma”. The panel had appointed M Nageswara Rao as the CBI interim director
Verma was given a less significant portfolio of Director General of Fire Services, Civil Defence and Home Guards. However, Verma denied the offer. He had taken over as the CBI chief on February 1, 2017. Days after Verma’s removal, Asthana was also moved out from the CBI and handed the charge of Bureau of Civil Aviation Security.
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