{"id":33636,"date":"2018-10-30T13:21:47","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T07:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=33636"},"modified":"2018-10-30T13:21:47","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T07:51:47","slug":"sc-dismisses-plea-against-asthanas-appointment-as-cbi-special-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sc-dismisses-plea-against-asthanas-appointment-as-cbi-special-director\/","title":{"rendered":"SC dismisses plea against Asthana\u2019s appointment as CBI special director\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/sc-dismisses-plea-against-asthanas-appointment-as-cbi-special-director\/article21022944.ece\"><strong>SC dismisses plea against Asthana\u2019s appointment as CBI special director<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>SC\u2019s order on a petition challenging CBI\u2019s new appointment<\/p>\n<p><strong>What has happened?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Supreme Court\u00a0has dismissed a petition challenging the appointment of senior Gujarat cadre IPS officer Rakesh Asthana as a special director of the CBI<\/p>\n<p><strong>Centre\u2019s position<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Centre opposed the plea, saying Mr. Asthana had had an outstanding career and supervised over 40 high profile cases, including the coal and AgustaWestland scams, black money and money laundering<\/p>\n<p><strong>Petitioner\u2019s position<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The petitioner, Common Cause, an NGO,\u00a0opposed Asthana\u2019s appointment, saying it was illegal as his name had surfaced in a diary recovered during a raid conducted by the Income Tax Department at the offices and other premises of Sterling Biotech Ltd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SC dismisses plea against Asthana\u2019s appointment as CBI special director\u00a0 Context SC\u2019s order on a petition challenging CBI\u2019s new appointment What has happened? The\u00a0Supreme Court\u00a0has dismissed a petition challenging the appointment of senior Gujarat cadre IPS officer Rakesh Asthana as a special director of the CBI Centre\u2019s position The Centre opposed the plea, saying Mr.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sc-dismisses-plea-against-asthanas-appointment-as-cbi-special-director\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SC dismisses plea against Asthana\u2019s appointment as CBI special director\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704828572},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}