Prime Minister Narendra Modi has summoned the top two men of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) after an ugly fight between the two has come out in the open. NDTV has reported that PM Modi has intervened into the matter and summoned both.
The CBI has booked its Special Director Rakesh Asthana in a bribery case, naming him as an accused in an FIR filed earlier this week. Asthana is the senior most officer of CBI after director Alok Verma. Asthana wrote to the government saying a “false FIR” has been lodged against him. He also made allegations of corrupt practices by the CBI chief.
Earlier today, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi tweeted targeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi and accused him of making the CBI a weapon of political vendetta.
Asthana has been named as an accused for demanding and taking a bribe from a businessman under investigation in the Moin Qureshi corruption case by a special investigation team (SIT) that he was heading.
In September, the CBI had said that Asthana’s role in alleged corruption in six cases was being investigated and the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) had been informed about this. One of the six cases in which Asthana’s role is being probed is reportedly the one in which a Kolkata based businessman Dipesh Chandak – who is accused turned approver in the Bihar fodder scam – managed to escape near Howrah station in August this year.
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Later, Asthana wrote to the government complaining against Verma saying that the latter was preventing him from carrying out investigations and trying to malign him.
