Coming down heavily on former interim CBI chief M Nageshwar Rao for transferring the agency officer heading the Muzaffarpur shelter home probe despite its orders barring this, the Supreme Court Thursday ordered Rao to personally appear before it on February 12. Taking up the case post-lunch, the bench went through the affidavit and told the CBI counsel, “We are taking this very very seriously. The CJI then asked the officer on whose direction he had filed it, to which the officer said that he filed it on Rao’s instruction. The Court expressed its disapproval of this and said the officer was not the competent authority to file the affidavit as required. Turning to the CBI officer who filed the document, CJI Gogoi remarked “never ever file an affidavit which is not in your personal satisfaction.

Source: Indian Express February 07, 2019 20:57 UTC