SC to hear Alok Verma’s plea challenging move to send him on leave

Satya Prakash 
Tribune News Service 
New Delhi, October 24

The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to hear on October 26 the plea by CBI Director Alok Kumar Verma challenging the Centre's decision to send him on leave.

Advocate Gopal Shankarnarayanan mentioned Verma's petition before a Bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi saying the investigating officers of sensitive cases were being changed.

The Bench agreed to take up the matter on Friday.

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Shankarnarayanan told a Bench headed by Chief Justice Gogoi that the government in a decision taken in the wee hours of Wednesday asked Director Alok Verma and Special Director Rakesh Asthana, who have been at loggerheads, to proceed on leave. It has jeopardised the probe into sensitive cases, he said.

The Bench agreed to take up on Friday the petition arising out of the CBI top officials' infighting and the government's decision to send the two on leave.

The government asked Joint Director M Nageswar Rao to take charge as acting CBI chief.