On Wednesday, the Supreme Court has agreed for the hearing of a plea by an NGO challenging the January 10 order of the government appointing IPS officer M Nageswar Rao as the interim director of CBI. The hearing will take place in the upcoming week. The matter was mentioned for urgent listing before a bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi.
Advocate Prashant Bhushan, appearing for petitioner NGO Common Cause and RTI activist Anjali Bhardwaj had appealed to the benchwhich also comprises of Justices N L Rao and and S K Kaul, to hear the plea this Friday. The CJI told Bhushan that it was "definitely not possible" to hear the matter on Friday and the plea would be heard next week.
CBI's Additional Director Rao was given the charge of interim chief on January 10 till the appointment of a new director after a high-powered committee headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi removed Alok Kumar Verma as the chief of the probe agency on charges of corruption and dereliction of duty.