 "CBI Special Director Rakesh Asthana (left) and CBI Director Alok Verma were summoned by the Prime Minister’s Office")
In August, 1829 an evening paper in Georgia, USA published a piece with the title – ‘A Successful Operation’. It described an amputation of the hip joint performed by one, Dr. Liston. The amputation went according to plan. However, post-surgery complications led to the death of the patient. The piece supposedly contains the first usage of a phrase of wry medical humour – “The operation was successful, but the patient is dead.”
It’s a phrase Alok Verma, the Director of the CBI will understand. Mr. Verma had been divested of his powers by the Central government in October last year.
