{"id":50699,"date":"2017-11-28T13:32:13","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T08:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=50699"},"modified":"2017-11-28T13:32:13","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T08:02:13","slug":"sc-dismisses-plea-asthanas-appointment-cbi-special-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/sc-dismisses-plea-asthanas-appointment-cbi-special-director","title":{"rendered":"SC dismisses plea against Asthana&#8217;s appointment as CBI special director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/SC-upholds-life-term.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"299\" height=\"169\" data-attachment-id=\"47555\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/sc-upholds-life-term-3-killing-gujarat-shiv-sena-leader\/sc-upholds-life-term\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/SC-upholds-life-term.jpg?fit=299%2C169&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"299,169\" 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=\"SC upholds life term\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/SC-upholds-life-term.jpg?fit=299%2C169&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-47555\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/SC-upholds-life-term.jpg?resize=299%2C169&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/SC-upholds-life-term.jpg?w=299&amp;ssl=1 299w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/SC-upholds-life-term.jpg?resize=150%2C85&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0The Supreme Court today dismissed a plea challenging appointment of senior 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 said &#8220;the writ petition is dismissed&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The apex court had on November 24 reserved the order in the matter.<\/p>\n<p>The Centre had opposed the plea, saying Asthana had an outstanding career and had supervised over 40 high-profile cases like coal scam, AugustaWestland scam, blackmoney and money laundering cases.<\/p>\n<p>Common Cause, the petitioner NGO, had opposed Asthana&#8217;s appointment, saying it was illegal as his name had surfaced in a diary recovered during a raid conducted by the Income Tax department at the offices and other premises of company Sterling Biotech Ltd.<\/p>\n<p>The Centre, however, had claimed that Asthana, who was earlier an additional director in CBI, was looking after its eleven zones.<\/p>\n<p>SC dismisses plea against Asthana&#8217;s appointment as CBI special director( Source &#8211; PTI )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0The Supreme Court today dismissed a plea challenging appointment of senior Gujarat cadre IPS officer Rakesh Asthana as a special director of the CBI. 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