{"id":50655,"date":"2017-11-24T13:25:46","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T07:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=50655"},"modified":"2017-11-24T13:25:46","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T07:55:46","slug":"sc-reserves-order-plea-challenging-appointment-asthana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/sc-reserves-order-plea-challenging-appointment-asthana","title":{"rendered":"SC reserves order on plea challenging appointment of Asthana"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_45612\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45612\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/11\/retired-judges.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"45612\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/govt-judiciary-agree-appoint-retired-judges-high-courts-tackle-pendency\/retired-judges\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/11\/retired-judges.jpg?fit=260%2C194&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"260,194\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"retired-judges\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/11\/retired-judges.jpg?fit=260%2C194&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/11\/retired-judges.jpg?fit=260%2C194&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-45612 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/11\/retired-judges.jpg?resize=260%2C194&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"SC reserves order on plea challenging appointment of Asthana\" width=\"260\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/11\/retired-judges.jpg?w=260&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/11\/retired-judges.jpg?resize=134%2C100&amp;ssl=1 134w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-45612\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SC reserves order on plea challenging appointment of Asthana<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Supreme Court today said it will pass order on November 28 on a plea challenging the appointment of Gujarat cadre IPS officer Rakesh Asthana as a special director of the CBI.<\/p>\n<p>A bench of Justices R K Agrawal and A M Sapre reserved its verdict after hearing the arguments of petitioner NGO Common Cause and Attorney General K K Vengugopal, who opposed the plea.<\/p>\n<p>Advocate Prashant Bhushan, appearing for the NGO, said Asthana&#8217;s appointment was illegal as his name had surfaced in a diary recovered during a raid conducted by the Income Tax department.<\/p>\n<p>He said the diary showed the name of Asthana as having received an illegal gratification from a company and CBI has recently registered an FIR for money laundering against the accused firm and some public servants.<\/p>\n<p>Attorney General opposed the plea and said the CBI has not named him in the FIR and Asthana has an outstanding career.<\/p>\n<p>He said Asthana, who was earlier an additional director in CBI, was looking after eleven zones and supervising high- profile scams including that of AgustaWestland, Kingfisher, Moin Qureshi and Hassan Ali.<\/p>\n<p>The bench, after hearing the arguments of both the sides, said it will pass the order.<\/p>\n<p>Demanding quashing of Asthana&#8217;s appointment, the petitioner has also sought a direction to the Centre to transfer him out of the agency during the pendency of investigation.<\/p>\n<p>It has alleged that the decision to appoint Asthana was &#8220;illegal&#8221; and &#8220;arbitrary&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The petitioner has claimed that the government and the selection committee had overruled the opinion of the CBI Director while appointing Asthana &#8220;in violation of the law&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>While seeking Asthana&#8217;s ouster, the plea noted the special director was the second in command in the CBI after the director and supervised almost all important cases being handled by the agency.<\/p>\n<p>( Source &#8211; PTI )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court today said it will pass order on November 28 on a plea challenging the appointment of Gujarat cadre IPS officer Rakesh Asthana as a special director of the CBI. 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