Make CVC Report, Minutes of Verma Meeting Public: Kharge to PM

Kharge also termed the appointment of M Nageshwar Rao as the CBI’s interim director “illegal”.

Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge, on Tuesday, 15 January, wrote to the prime minister asking him to release the findings of the CVC, Justice AK Patnaik’s report, and the minutes of the 10 January committee meeting on Alok Verma.

Kharge was the only dissenter in the High Powered Committee that ousted former CBI director Alok Verma on 10 January.

In his note to the prime minister, Kharge wrote that the documents should be released “so the public can draw its own conclusions in this matter,” The Indian Express reported.

The note also raises questions about the events that led to Verma’s ouster. In the letter, Kharge alleges that “manipulative actions of the government are directly causing deep embarrassment to the Judiciary,” according to The Indian Express report.

"Actions of the government indicate that it's scared of a CBI headed by an independent director," Kharge wrote in his letter to PM Modi, news agency PTI reported.

He also termed the appointment of M Nageshwar Rao as the CBI's interim director "illegal" and demanding that a meeting of the selection committed be convened immediately to appoint a new chief of the probe agency.

(With inputs from The Indian Express.)