Barely two days after the Supreme Court reinstated him, Alok Verma was on Thursday removed as CBI Director by a high-powered committee headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on charges of corruption.
Alok Verma, a 1979-batch IPS officer, had resumed duty on Wednesday, a day after the apex court paved his return with some riders and asked the three-member panel that selects the CBI chief to decide on his continuance in a week in the light of charges against him in the report of the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC). Verma’s two-year tenure as director of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is due to end on January 31.
Verma has been posted as Director General Fire Services, Civil Defence and Home Guards, under the Union Home Ministry. The charge of the CBI has been given to Additional Director M Nageshwar Rao, said a government order issued on Thursday evening.
So what did the CVC report say?
(Inputs from PTI)
