Top CBI officer Nageshwar Rao shunted out of probe agency
New Delhi, Jul 5 (IBNS): Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) additional director Nageshwar Rao, who served as the acting CBI director twice, has been shunted out of the country’s premier probe agency.
He has been directed to join as director general of Fire Services, Civil Defence and Home Guard.
This same assignment was earlier given to ex-CBI director Alok Verma.
Verma did not take up the assignment and sent his resignation instead.
The order came from home ministry hours after the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi cut short his tenure at the Central Bureau of Investigation.
Rao came to limelight after being hand-picked as interim chief to replace Alok Verma in October last year.
However, the Supreme Court did not allow Rao to take any important policy decisions.
Instead, he was told to carry out only routine administrative functions.
Rao landed in trouble when the Supreme Court held him guilty of contempt of court for the transfer of a CBI officer AK Sharma probing the Bihar shelter home sexual assault case.
"It turned out that when the government moved the initial proposal to give AK Sharma a new assignment, Rao didn’t tell the Centre that the Supreme Court had barred moving out officers supervising the Bihar shelter home scandal," The Hindustan Times reported.
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