Kala Pani saza: CBI's Bassi moves SC against transfer
January 21, 2019 15:53
CBI Deputy Superintendent of Police AK Bassi on Monday moved the Supreme Court challenging his transfer to Port Blair saying it was vitiated by mala fide and would prejudice the probe against former special director Rakesh Asthana.
Bassi has challenged the transfer order issued on January 11 saying it is violative of the directions issued by the top court in its judgment on the plea of the former CBI director Alok Kumar Verma.
"It is passed by an officer/authority not competent to pass such orders. The impugned order intends to victimize the Petitioner herein," said Bassi, who was the investigation officer in the Asthana case.
During the colonial era, Kala Pani ki saza was a term used for the incarceration of criminals who were deemed to be extremely dangerous by the British Indian administration. These were generally revolutionaries, political dissidents and hardened criminals.
These prisoners were interred at the Cellular Jail, the British Indian prison on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands was known as Kala Pani.
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