January 17, 2019:

The Prime Minister heads the high-power Selection Committee along with the Chief Justice of India and the Leader of Congress in the Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge.

The move comes a day after Congress leader in the Lok Sabha, Mallikarjun Kharge, wrote to the Prime Minister calling the appointment of interim CBI Director M. Nageshwar Rao “illegal.”

In the letter dated January 14, he had said the government should establish its bonafides in fighting corruption and ensuring the integrity of the premier investigative agency by convening an immediate meeting of the Selection Committee.

“Any delay would further erode the faith the public has placed in this institution and the credibility of this institution,” he said.

The former CBI chief, Alok Verma, who was transferred out by the government by a 2:1 decision of the Selection Panel last week, would have completed his two-year tenure as CBI chief on January 31.

The Congress had asked the Modi government to extend Mr. Verma’s tenure by 77 days — the period when he was on forced leave — as the Supreme Court had restored his post and noted that the government’s decision to send him on leave was ‘procedurally wrong.’

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