Alok Verma is back as CBI director as Supreme Court scraps govt order

In a midnight move in October, the Union government had asked Alok Verma to go on leave following a public spat with his deputy and special CBI director Rakesh Asthana

The Supreme Court on Tuesday reinstated Alok Kumar Verma as director of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), but restrained him from taking any major policy decision till a probe against him for alleged corruption is over.

It set aside the government's decision to appoint senior IPS officer M Nageswara Rao as the agency's interim chief. The court did not address the case of the CBI's second-in-command, Rakesh Asthana.  

The court said a committee, which appoints the CBI director and comprises the prime minister, the leader of opposition and the chief justice of India, should be convened within a week to