Alok Verma removed as CBI chief by PM Modi-led selection committee

A selection committee headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi met to decide the fate of CBI Director Alok Verma, reinstated by a Supreme Court order

A three-member committee led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday by a majority vote removed Alok Verma as CBI Director, two days after the Supreme Court scrapped a government order and reinstated him.

The committee, which also included Mallikarjun Kharge, the Congress party’s leader in the Lok Sabha, and Supreme Court Justice A K Sikri, removed Verma after considering the Central Vigilance Commission’s (CVC) investigation of corruption charges against the officer.

There were eight counts of charges of corruption and dereliction of duty