{"id":55456,"date":"2019-02-19T17:08:57","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T11:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=55456"},"modified":"2019-02-19T17:09:58","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T11:39:58","slug":"supreme-court-disposes-plea-challenging-nageswara-raos-appointment-as-interim-cbi-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/supreme-court-disposes-plea-challenging-nageswara-raos-appointment-as-interim-cbi-chief","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court disposes plea challenging Nageswara Rao&#8217;s appointment as interim CBI chief."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/nageshwar-rao.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" data-attachment-id=\"55432\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/contempt-notice-m-nageswara-rao-reaches-supreme-court\/nageshwar-rao\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/nageshwar-rao.jpg?fit=259%2C194&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"259,194\" 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=\"nageshwar rao\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/nageshwar-rao.jpg?fit=259%2C194&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-55432\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/nageshwar-rao.jpg?resize=259%2C194&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/nageshwar-rao.jpg?w=259&amp;ssl=1 259w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/nageshwar-rao.jpg?resize=134%2C100&amp;ssl=1 134w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 259px) 100vw, 259px\" \/><\/a>The Supreme Court on Tuesday disposed of a plea challenging the appointment of M Nageswara Rao as interim Director of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).<\/p>\n<p>A bench of Justices Arun Mishra and Vineet Saran said no further interference is required as the relief has already been granted with the appointment of a full time CBI Director.<\/p>\n<p>The verdict came on a plea of a non-governmental organisation (NGO), Common Cause, which had challenged the appointment of Rao as interim CBI director.<\/p>\n<p>In a previous hearing on February 1, the top court had said that it was \u201caverse\u201d to the arrangement of an interim CBI Director and the Centre should \u201cimmediately\u201d appoint a regular chief of the probe agency.<\/p>\n<p>The bench had said the agency was not functioning properly and the officers were fighting and levelling corruption allegations against each other which was wholly unbecoming of them.<\/p>\n<p>The court had also said that the new CBI director who would be appointed must \u201ctrace the movements of files\u201d during the period when former CBI chief Alok Kumar Verma was reinstated to the post for two days.<\/p>\n<p>Three judges of the apex court &#8212; Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, Justices A K Sikri and N V Ramana had recused themselves from hearing the matter.<\/p>\n<p>In its petition in the apex court, the NGO had sought specific mechanisms to ensure transparency in the process of appointing the CBI director.<\/p>\n<p>The plea had alleged that the October 23 last year order of the government appointing Rao as interim CBI director was quashed by the top court on January 8 but the Centre \u201cacted in a completely malafide, arbitrary and illegal manner\u201d to appoint him again in \u201ccomplete contravention\u201d of the Delhi Special Police Establishment Act.<\/p>\n<p>On January 10, Rao, additional director in CBI, was made interim chief till the appointment of a new director, after the removal of Verma.<\/p>\n<p>On February 4, Rishi Kumar Shukla, a 1983-batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer, took charge of the probe agency as a full-fledged director.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Tuesday disposed of a plea challenging the appointment of M Nageswara Rao as interim Director of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). 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