- Saturday, April 20, 2024
By: Keerthi Mohan
Prime minister Narendra Modi’s government on Wednesday (24) removed the chief of India’s federal investigation agency and his deputy after months of infighting that saw the pair accusing each other of corruption. Alok Verma, the director of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), and his second-in-command Rakesh Asthana were relieved of duty pending inquiry, the government said in a statement. Both men had levelled “grave allegations of corruption” against one another, risking a “potential loss of credibility and reputation” to the agency. The government took the unusual step of intervening because of “extraordinary and unprecedented circumstances” at the CBI, including Verma…
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