Why selection panel wasn't consulted: Kharge to PM on CBIvsCBI

October 26, 2018 08:28

Leader of the Congress party in Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge has demanded answers from Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the action against Central Bureau of Investigation director Alok Verma without consulting other members of the panel that selected him.

In a strongly-worded letter to the prime minister, Kharge accused him of acting 'arbitrarily' and creating a 'false equivalence of charges' between the CBI director and his deputy Rakesh Asthana.

Kharge was part of a three-member panel headed by Modi that had selected Verma last year to head the CBI.

The then Chief Justice of India Jagdish Singh Khehar was the other member of the selection committee.

He said that 'no meeting of the selection committee was convened to deliberate on this issue as prescribed under law'.

The Congress leader also accused Modi and his government of resorting to 'snooping' on Verma to 'cover-up' the Rafale 'scam'. -- PTI

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