Congress spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala referred to a song from the famous Bollywood movie Golmaal while tweeting on the recent developments in the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) – the removal of the agency’s top boss and four men found to be “snooping” outside his house – and wrote Golmaal hai, sab golmaal hai.
After four men were found suspiciously moving around CBI director Alok Verma’s Janpath Road residence in New Delhi, the Congress said that the Modi government has stooped to a new low trying to snoop on him after illegally removing him from his post.
The four persons caught around Verma’s home on were from the IB (Intelligence Bureau), the Congress said. The CBI has become the “Central Burial of Investigation”, tweeted Congress.
CBI director Alok Verma and Special Director Rakesh Asthana were both asked to go on leave as per a late-night order. Verma has already moved the Supreme Court against the government order and the hearing is scheduled tomorrow.
Rahul Gandhi has said that Verma was removed because he was collecting information as the CBI boss on the Rafale fighter jet deal.
Meanwhile, the Centre has accepted that the four men outside Verma’s home were from the IB. However, they were deployed as part of a routine patrol duty and were not snooping, it was said.
They had just halted on Janpath seeing a crowd there. Snooping on the CBI director was not their intention and that their actions have been hugely misinterpreted, the Centre said.
These four men had earlier been spotted loitering around for a long time and were detained after their behaviour “appeared suspicious.” They were questioned by the PSOs inside Verma’s residential compound and then handed over to the police patrol team. However, earlier, Delhi Police had said that they had neither detained anyone, nor received any complaint.
