 "CBI Special Director Rakesh Asthana (left) and CBI Director Alok Verma were summoned by the Prime Minister’s Office")
The crisis in the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) – caused by the Centre’s unprecedented action of forcing its director, Alok Verma, to go on leave, and appointing an interim director in his place – saw the Supreme Court devise an arrangement seemingly satisfactory to all the parties before it.
Although the court, while hearing the matter on Friday, did not reveal its mind on the merits of the petitions filed by Verma and Common Cause against the Centre’s action, it is clear what is on test: the elaborate justification offered by the Central Vigilance Commission, in its press note, issued
