Delhi HC gives four months to CBI to complete probe in bribery case against Rakesh Asthana

The agency said its plea to extend the deadline was to facilitate a fair and free investigation.

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· May 31, 2019 · 12:15 pm

CBI requests Delhi High Court for more time to investigate bribery case against Rakesh Asthana

However, Justice Mukta Gupta admonished the agency for not handing over a copy of the plea for extension to the counsel for the former CBI special director.

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· Mar 27, 2019 · 06:08 pm

CBI row: Prashant Bhushan tells Supreme Court he made ‘genuine mistake’ in his tweets against Centre

Bhushan had hinted that the Centre had misled the court on the appointment of Nageswara Rao as interim CBI chief.

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· Mar 07, 2019 · 02:28 pm

CBI row: Supreme Court refuses to interfere in Nageswara Rao’s appointment as agency’s interim chief

The bench also refused to set out guidelines for more transparency in appointments to the top Central Bureau of Investigation post.

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· Feb 19, 2019 · 11:22 am

Former interim CBI chief Nageswara Rao apologises to Supreme Court for transferring official

The ‘unconditional apology’ was made to the Supreme Court for transferring AK Sharma, who was investigating the Bihar shelter home rapes.

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· Feb 11, 2019 · 10:46 pm

CBI row: Centre curtails tenure of two senior officers

One of them, Anish Prasad, was reportedly at the centre of the row between former agency chief Alok Verma and his deputy Rakesh Asthana.

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· Feb 07, 2019 · 07:45 am

CBI row: Supreme Court issues notice to lawyer Prashant Bhushan on contempt pleas against him

The court served the notice after considering the petitions filed by the Centre and Attorney General KK Venugopal.

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· Feb 06, 2019 · 12:14 pm

CBI row: Centre files contempt petition in Supreme Court against lawyer Prashant Bhushan

The lawyer has accused the Centre of misleading the Supreme Court regarding the appointment of CBI’s former interim chief M Nageswara Rao.

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· Feb 06, 2019 · 11:03 am

As Mamata Banerjee vs CBI battle moves to Supreme Court, both sides have many questions to answer

Chief Justice Gogoi says he will take the Kolkata police commissioner to task if there is proof he tampered with evidence. What if the CBI doesn’t produce any?

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· Feb 04, 2019 · 09:02 pm

CBI row: Mallikarjun Kharge writes to Arun Jaitley, says he did not question CBI chief’s integrity

The Congress leader said that in his dissent note he had objected to the way the government allegedly flouted procedure while appointing the agency’s director.

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· Feb 04, 2019 · 07:13 pm

CBI chief appointment: Mallikarjun Kharge’s dissent ‘coloured by politics’, alleges Arun Jaitley

The Congress leader had made the appointment of the agency’s director look like a political battle, said the Union minister.

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· Feb 03, 2019 · 03:32 pm

CBI: Centre appoints IPS officer Rishi Kumar Shukla new agency director

However, Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge, a member of the selection committee, objected to his appointment.

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· Feb 02, 2019 · 05:34 pm