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M Nageswara Rao’s Appointment As Interim CBI Chief Challenged , SC To Hear Plea Next Week
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The on- going CBI vs CBI feud sees no signs of ending . Now according to media reports, it is leant that the Supreme Court will next week hear a plea challenging the appointment of M Nageswara Rao as interim chief of the Central Bureau of Investigation after Alok Verma’s removal.
This ruling by the SC after a plea had been filed by an NGO in which the January 10 order of the government appointing IPS officer M Nageswara Rao as interim director of the CBI has been challenged.
Advocate Prashant Bhushan, appearing for petitioner NGO Common Cause and RTI activist Anjali Bhardwaj, had posted the matter for urgent listing before a bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi. Bhushan appealed to the bench, also comprising Justices N L Rao and S K Kaul,