The court permitted Verma to inspect the case file, stated to be in the custody of Central Vigilance Commission, on Thursday at 4:30 PM in the CVC's office where CBI's Superintendent of Police Satish Dagar will be present at the time of inspection.
Sinha said during interrogation of a middleman Manoj Prasad, who was arrested in the bribery case allegedly involving Asthana, the names of Doval and Samant Kumar Goel, Special Director of India’s external intelligence agency (R&AW) cropped up.
The bench was hearing Verma's plea challenging the government's decision to divest him of duties and sending him on leave.
Officer Sinha has alleged that he was transferred to Nagpur and as a result has been taken out from the probe team investigating the FIR against Asthana.
The Supreme Court had permitted Gupta to intervene in the matter related to CBI Director Alok Verma challenging Centre's decision divesting him of his charge as chief of the investigation agency.
The Supreme Court has deferred the matter till Tuesday, November 20. Alok Verma to be provided with CVC report.
On October 24, CBI chief Alok Verma was divested of his charge and Joint Director M. Nageshwar Rao was made the Interim Director.
Justice Najmi Waziri denied the relief to Prasad, saying the allegations against him were serious in nature.
The hearing comes two days after Verma, appeared before the CVC panel headed by KV Chowdhary and refuted allegations levelled against him by CBI Special Director Rakesh Asthana.
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The hearing comes two days after Verma, appeared before the CVC panel headed by KV Chowdhary and refuted allegations levelled against him by CBI Special Director Rakesh Asthana.
The hearing comes two days after Verma, appeared before the CVC panel headed by KV Chowdhary and refuted allegations levelled against him by CBI Special Director Rakesh Asthana.
Asthana came to the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) office at around 4.45 PM and stayed there for around 10 minutes, but could not meet any senior official as there was no scheduled appointment.
Earlier on Thursday, CBI Director Alok Verma appeared before the panel headed by Chowdary and countered the corruption charges levelled against him by Asthana.
he CBI Director spent about an hour at the CVC headquarters in south Delhi’s INA area, according to CVC officials.
The Supreme Court had on October 26 asked the Central Vigilance Commission to complete within two weeks its inquiry into allegations against Verma levelled by Asthana.
Delivering the order rejecting the bail application of Sinha, Special CBI judge Santhosh Snehi Mann said that it was not a fit stage to grant him relief.
Asthana, a 1984-batch IPS officer of Gujarat cadre, is accused of accepting a bribe of Rs 2 crore from a Hyderabad-based businessman Sana Sathish Babu, who was under probe in the Qureshi case in a bid to "wreck" the investigation.
According to officials, some CBI officials the CVC on Tuesday had examined some CBI officials probing crucial cases which figured in Asthana's complaint of corruption against the CBI chief Alok Verma.
During the hearing, the lawyer appearing for Kumar told the court that every rule has been violated by CBI in this case against him and the "irony" is that the person who followed the rule is in jail.
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