While hearing the Muzaffarpur case on October 31 last year, the apex court bench of Justices Madan B. Lokur (now retired), Abdul Nazeer and Deepak Gupta had directed: “Shri A.K. A visibly annoyed Justice Gogoi asked the CBI’s special public prosecutor, Raghavacharyulu, on what basis Sharma had been transferred. “We are initiating contempt against all those officers,” Justice Gogoi told the CBI counsel. Rao had been appointed interim CBI director after the government benched then director Alok Verma and his feuding deputy, Asthana, on October 23-24 night. The ruling was seen as a blow to a purported government plan to elevate Asthana as CBI director.

Source: The Telegraph February 07, 2019 22:07 UTC