{"id":54886,"date":"2018-12-05T16:44:15","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T11:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=54886"},"modified":"2018-12-05T16:44:23","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T11:14:23","slug":"cbi-top-2-were-fighting-like-cats-we-watched-with-amazement-centre-defends-tells-sc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/cbi-top-2-were-fighting-like-cats-we-watched-with-amazement-centre-defends-tells-sc","title":{"rendered":"CBI top 2 were fighting like cats we watched with amazement: Centre defends tells SC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" data-attachment-id=\"54887\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/cbi-top-2-were-fighting-like-cats-we-watched-with-amazement-centre-defends-tells-sc\/583284dad4e479858d09033493292c17\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/12\/583284dad4e479858d09033493292c17.jpg?fit=600%2C450&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"600,450\" 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=\"583284dad4e479858d09033493292c17\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/12\/583284dad4e479858d09033493292c17.jpg?fit=600%2C450&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/12\/583284dad4e479858d09033493292c17.jpg?resize=600%2C450&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-54887\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/12\/583284dad4e479858d09033493292c17.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/12\/583284dad4e479858d09033493292c17.jpg?resize=133%2C100&amp;ssl=1 133w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/12\/583284dad4e479858d09033493292c17.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>NEW DELHI:&nbsp;The central government on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that the top two officers of the Central Bureau of Investigation&nbsp;Alok Verma and his deputy, Rakesh Asthana&nbsp;&nbsp;were fighting like cats, and&nbsp;was becoming critical and matter of public debate&nbsp;asserting it was forced to strip&nbsp;CBI director Alok Verma on leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Slamming both Verma and special CBI director Rakesh Asthana, Attorney General KK Venugopal&nbsp;told the court government of India was watching with amazement as to what these two officers were doing, they were fighting like cats&#8230; Extraordinary situation made centre act and divest Alok Verma of his powers till the Chief Vigilance Commission takes a decision, reading from the late night government order sending the CBI chief on forced leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur objective was to ensure that public confidence in the institution is not eroded, so both officers were sent on leave,\u201d he added.&nbsp;A bench led by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi has been hearing the petition filed by Verma for the last one month.&nbsp;Verma\u2019s tenure as CBI director comes to an end in January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI:&nbsp;The central government on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that the top two officers of the Central Bureau of Investigation&nbsp;Alok Verma and his deputy, Rakesh Asthana&nbsp;&nbsp;were fighting like cats, and&nbsp;was becoming critical and matter of public debate&nbsp;asserting it was forced to strip&nbsp;CBI director Alok Verma on leave. &#8220;Slamming both Verma and special CBI director [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[2114,43428,31987],"class_list":["post-54886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-law-news","tag-central-bureau-of-investigation","tag-chief-justice-ranjan-gogoi","tag-featured"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>CBI top 2 were fighting like cats we watched with amazement: Centre defends tells SC - Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; 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