{"id":55180,"date":"2019-01-17T14:44:32","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T09:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=55180"},"modified":"2019-01-17T14:44:32","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T09:14:32","slug":"appointment-of-cbi-interim-chief-illegal-mallikarjun-kharge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/appointment-of-cbi-interim-chief-illegal-mallikarjun-kharge","title":{"rendered":"Appointment of CBI interim chief &#8216;illegal&#8217;:  Mallikarjun Kharge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/01\/kharge.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" data-attachment-id=\"55181\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/appointment-of-cbi-interim-chief-illegal-mallikarjun-kharge\/kharge\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/01\/kharge.jpg?fit=302%2C193&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"302,193\" 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=\"kharge\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/01\/kharge.jpg?fit=302%2C193&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-55181\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/01\/kharge.jpg?resize=300%2C192&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/01\/kharge.jpg?resize=300%2C192&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/01\/kharge.jpg?resize=150%2C96&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/01\/kharge.jpg?w=302&amp;ssl=1 302w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0Leader of Congress Mallikarjun Kharge has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, terming the appointment of M Nageswara Rao as the CBI&#8217;s interim director &#8220;illegal&#8221; and demanding that a meeting of the selection committed be convened immediately to appoint a new chief of the probe agency.<\/p>\n<p>Kharge, who is part of the prime minister-headed three-member panel that removed Alok Verma as CBI chief, alleged that the government is scared of CBI led by an &#8220;independent&#8221; director<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Actions of the government indicate that it&#8217;s scared of a CBI headed by an independent director,&#8221; Kharge wrote in his letter to PM Modi<\/p>\n<p>He also demanded that the government comes clean on the issues and make public the CVC report, Justice A K Patnaik&#8217;s report and minutes of the January 10 meeting<\/p>\n<p>Rao&#8217;s appointment as CBI interim chief is &#8220;illegal&#8221;, the Congress leader wrote in the letter<\/p>\n<p>Barely two days after the Supreme Court reinstated him, Verma was Thursday last removed as CBI director by the high-powered committee headed by PM Modi on charges of corruption and dereliction of duty, in an unprecedented action in the central probe agency&#8217;s 55-year history<\/p>\n<p>There were eight charges against Verma in the CVC report presented before the committee that also comprised Kharge and Justice A K Sikri, appointed by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi as his nominee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Leader of Congress Mallikarjun Kharge has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, terming the appointment of M Nageswara Rao as the CBI&#8217;s interim director &#8220;illegal&#8221; and demanding that a meeting of the selection committed be convened immediately to appoint a new chief of the probe agency. 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