CBI Vs CBI

The CBI on Saturday conducted searches on the premises of former TMC MP Mahua Moitra in multiple locations, including Kolkata, in connection with the alleged cash-for-query case, officials said. Teams of the central probe agency reached Moitra's residence in Kolkata and other cities early on Saturday, informed about the search proceedings and started the operation, they said. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) registered an FIR against the former Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP on Thursday on the directives of the Lokpal, which has instructed the agency to file a report within six months, they said. Moitra was expelled from the Lok Sabha in December for "unethical conduct". The former MP has challenged her expulsion in the Supreme Court and will again be in the hustings during the upcoming general elections as a TMC candidate from the Krishnanagar seat in West Bengal. The Lokpal, the anti-corruption ombudsman, issued the directions to the CBI after receiving the findings of its

Special CBI Judge Sanjeev Aggarwal directed the initial investigating officer, Ajay Kumar Bassi, in the case to appear before it on February 28 to explain the case diary

The CBI further submitted in an affidavit that the agency never put any telephone number under surveillance illegally

A bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justices Deepak Gupta and Sanjiv Khanna said that Bassi can make a representation to the CBI director about his grievances

Patriotic Indians feel only one small disappointment: The new leadership of the CBI has so far failed to issue any clean chits

The Supreme Court said no further interference is required as the relief has already been granted with the appointment of a full time CBI Director

Top court says M Nageswara Rao committed contempt by transferring officers despite orders against it

SC had come down heavily on the CBI for transferring A K Sharma out of the agency in violation of the court's order and had directed Rao to personally appear before it on Feb 12

He succeeds Alok Kumar Verma, who was on January 10 removed from the post

Shukla was removed as DGP of Madhya Pradesh only three days ago by the new Congress government in the state

The top court was hearing a petition filed by NGO Common Cause challenging the Centre's decision to appoint IPS officer M Nageswara Rao as the interim CBI director

The apex court was hearing a petition filed by NGO Common Cause challenging the Centre's decision to appoint M Nageswara Rao as an interim CBI director

SC says it is averse to appointment of an interim CBI director.

The government had transferred Verma as DG - Fire Services, Civil Defence and Home Guards, which he declined and sent a request plea to DoPT to consider him retired

The government on January 18, however, appointed Asthana as director of BCAS, India's regulatory authority for civil aviation security

Justice Ramana became the third judge of the apex court to recuse himself from hearing the matter as CJI Ranjan Gogoi and Justice A K Sikri had earlier recused themselves from adjudicating the case

The post of the CBI chief has been lying vacant since January 10 after the unceremonious exit of Alok Verma

Opposition parties, mainly the Congress, have accused the central government of interference in public institutions

Justice Sikri was part of the high powered panel which had removed CBI Director Alok Verma

A Saravanan, who was probing the anti-Sterlite protests firing case in Tamil Nadu in which 13 people were killed, has been shifted to the banking, securities and frauds branch in Mumbai