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SSP/LW/NP-34/2016-18 Follow us on: @TheDailyPioneer facebook.com/dailypioneer instagram.com/dailypioneer/ Established 1864 OPINION 8 Published From WORLD 11 SPORT 16 DELHI LUCKNOW BHOPAL A BLIP IN FURIOUS TRUMP WALKS OUT MARY REACHES TOP BHUBANESWAR RANCHI RAIPUR INDIA'S STORY OF SHUTDOWN TALKS SPOT IN WOMEN’S BOXING CHANDIGARH DEHRADUN Late City Vol. 155 Issue 10 *Air Surcharge Extra if Applicable LUCKNOW, FRIDAY JANUARY 11, 2019; PAGES 16 `3 NO SUBSTITUTE TO HARD WORK: MADHURI} DIXIT} 14 VIVACITY www.dailypioneer.com Alok Verma ousted for ‘graft’ Justice Lalit recuses Selection Panel shifts him to Fire Services, restores Rao as interim CBI chief for 2 weeks from Ayodhya case, RAKESH K SINGH n NEW DELHI within two weeks and remove m Verma was sacked on the court also directed the Centre based businessman Sathish SC to reconstitute all officials of doubtful integri- basis of a CVC report to refer the issue of Verma’s Babu Sana an accused in the he high-powered Selection ty from the agency. charging him of corruption removal to the high-powered case but Verma never gave TCommittee led by Prime The panel decided to trans- and dereliction of duty Selection Committee. clearance. The probe in this Minister Narendra Modi on fer Verma as DG, Fire Services, m The CVC report indicted Meanwhile, the Delhi High case was led by Asthana. five-judge Bench Thursday sacked CBI Director Civil Defence and Home Verma with eight counts of Court on Friday will decide on The CVC report also con- Alok Verma after two-and-a- Guards. The Selection charges, including forming a a plea of Asthana for quashing tained intercepts from the New Delhi: The Supreme DY Chandrachud, which heard half hours meeting. Chief Committee also decided to coterie of officials of doubtful of the graft case registered at Research and Analysis Wing Court on Thursday decided to the matter for 20 minutes, noted Justice of India’s nominee make CBI Additional Director integrity Verma’s behest. (RAW), in which “money constitute afresh the five-judge in its order that Dhavan has “no Justice AK Sikri and Leader of M Nageshwara Rao as the m While the SC order rein- changing hands with number Constitution Bench to hear on objection to Justice Uday Opposition in the Lok Sabha interim Director till the high Panel decided to appoint a stating Verma as the CBI chief, one in the CBI” is talked about, January 29 the politically-sen- Umesh Lalit hearing the matter, Mallikarjun Kharge were two powered committee decides new CBI Director within two it specifically barred him from officials said. sitive Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri the ultimate decision in this other members of the Selection on a name for posting as the weeks and remove all taking any major policy deci- Incidentally, Sana is the Masjid land title dispute in regard is for the learned judge Committee. new CBI Director. List of officials of doubtful integrity sions, but he continued with complainant for the bribery Ayodhya after a judge, Justice to take”. The panel decided to sack probables include Uttar from the agency the spree to order transfers and case against Asthana. Sana has UU Lalit, recused himself from “The said facts being point- Verma with a 2-1 majority, Pradesh DGP OP Singh, NIA m Verma is retiring from posting in the agency. Verma also mentioned the name of the hearing. ed out, Justice Uday Umesh wherein Mallikarjun Kharge DG YC Modi and CISF chief service on January 31 had on Wednesday through Samant Goel, the second-in- Justice Lalit, who was part of Lalit has expressed his disin- opposed his removal. Both Rajesh Ranjan. two different orders rescinded command of RAW, of being the five-judge Constitution clination to participate in the Modi and Justice Sikri voted in Verma had resumed duty vened to restore the integrity of transfers and postings done by involved in protecting the mid- Bench headed by Chief Justice hearing any further. We, there- favour of Verma’s removal. The as CBI chief on Wednesday fol- the CBI and recommended incharge Director Rao. Rao dleman, Manoj Prasad. The Ranjan Gogoi, “expressed his fore, have no option but to committee had met on lowing a Supreme Court order their forced leave till an enquiry had transferred 13 officials other case relates to a disinclination to participate in adjourn the case to another Wednesday but that meeting reinstating him as the agency by the anti-corruption watch- including the team probing Preliminary Enquiry registered the hearing any further” and date for the same purpose i.e. was inconclusive. boss. Verma along with his dog was over. Based on the the case against Asthana. by the CBI about acquisition of opted himself out of the con- To fix a date of hearing and to Interestingly, Kharge had deputy Rakesh Asthana were CVC recommendation, the Verma revoked most of the land in Gurgaon. The CVC, in tentious matter. The apex court draw up a time schedule for filed a dissent note against on October 23 sent on forced Government sent them on transfers and postings. its report, alleged that Verma’s said since Justice Lalit has opted hearing of the case,” the Bench Verma’s appointment as CBI leave following a bitter feud forced leave and appointed On Thursday too, Verma name had figured in the case out of the hearing in the matter, said. chief during the Selection between the two. Both Verma then Joint Director M transferred or changed postings and at least `36 crore had there was no option left but to Fourteen appeals have Committee meeting. and Asthana leveled corruption Nageshwara Rao as the in- of seven officials, including changed hands. The CVC had adjourn the case “to fix a date of been filed in the apex court Verma was sacked on the allegations against each other. charge CBI chief during the the posting Superintendent of recommended a thorough hearing and to draw up a time against the 2010 Allahabad basis of a CVC report charging Verma also booked Verma in a pendency of the CVC probe Police MK Gupta, to probe the probe into the case. schedule for hearing of the case”. High Court judgement, deliv- him of corruption and derelic- graft case on October 15 against Verma. bribery case against Asthana. The CVC, which has a Senior advocate Rajeev Dhavan, ered in four civil suits, that the tion of duty. The CVC report despite express recommenda- Verma then moved the saying the post enjoys a two- The CVC report also superintendence role over the appearing for a Muslim party, 2.77-acre land be partitioned indicted Verma with eight tion by the CVC not to go Supreme Court challenging years fixed tenure. The SC on referred about the controversial CBI, had also alleged that said Justice Lalit had appeared equally among three parties -- counts of charges, including ahead with filing any FIR the Government decision to Tuesday trashed the meat exporter Moin Qureshi’s Verma tried to save an as a lawyer for former UP CM the Sunni Waqf Board, the forming a coterie of officials of against Asthana. send him on leave and divest Government order to send case and claimed that the CBI officer in the IRCTC case Kalyan Singh in a connected Nirmohi Akhara and Ram doubtful integrity. Following this, the Central him of his powers, functions Verma on leave and reinstated team looking into the case involving former Union matter “sometime in the year Lalla. Verma’s joy of reinstate- Vigilance Commission inter- and supervisory role in the CBI him as CBI chief. The apex wanted to make Hyderabad- Minister Lalu Prasad. 1997”. Dhavan, who was appear- ment by the SC as the CBI boss The Commission also He said Singh, as then CM ing for lead petitioner M Siddiq after a gap of 77 days was short- Sacking CBI chief Alok Indeed, Mr Mallikarjun Kharge is a man of amazing alleged that Verma was trying of UP, had “failed in his promise (since dead) and now repre- lived as he could resume office Verma twice in a row consistency. When Shri Alok Verma was appointed to bring in tainted officials into to maintain the status quo” sented by his legal heirs, point- for just two days. Verma is clearly shows PM CBI chief by the Selection Committee, he dissented. the CBI. It claimed that efforts over the disputed structure at ed to the September 27, 2018 retiring from service on Modi is now prisoner Now, when Shri Alok Verma has been removed by the seeking cooperation from the Ayodhya which was demol- judgement, by which the top January 31. of his own lies same Selection Committee, he has dissented CBI chief did not yield results ished on December 6, 1992. The court had refused to refer the The panel also decided to as he continued to keep the files Bench, also comprising Justices 1994 verdict in Ismail Faruqui appoint a new CBI Director RAHUL GANDHI UNION MINISTER PIYUSH GOYAL away from the CVC. 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