CVC requested Verma to withdraw adverse comments on Asthana

January 12, 2019 19:43

Central Vigilance Commissioner K V Chowdary asked former Central Bureau of Investigation director Alok Verma to withdraw the adverse comments he had made on the record in his deputy, Rakesh Asthana's annual confidential report, or ACR, an exclusive report by The Wire said.

Sources close to Justice A K Patnaik -- the retired judge tasked with supervising the CVC's probe against Verma -- told The Wire that Chowdary went to Verma's residence on Janpath and made this unusual request assuring him that 'everything will be ok' for the former director if he does that.

Details of this meeting were provided in writing by Verma to Justice Patnaik.

Chowdary's request to Verma came when the fight between the two officers had broken out in the CBI and when Verma had to take a call on making top PMO bureaucrat Bhaskar Khulbe, an accused in the coal scam, something that Asthana had resisted.

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