| Former CBI director's conduct wholly unbecoming: AG |
 Centre has told the Supreme Court that the conduct of ex-CBI Chief in relation to meat exporter Moin Akhtar Qureshi was unbecoming of the position he held. Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi told the court that the income tax apprisal report on Qureshi discloses astonishing state of affairs between him and the previous CBI Director who used to have conversation with the businessman on a daily basis in code. Although the Attorney General did not name the ex-CBI Director, but the reference was seen as towards AP Singh as the top law officer said the former agency chief is now a member of UPSC. Singh was the predecessor of present Director Ranjit Sinha who is also facing flak for allegedly meeting Qureshi, an alleged hawala dealer, at his residence. Rohatgi, however, said there is no conversation between Moin Qureshi and the present CBI Director. The bench said it will go through the report and documents placed by the AG and hold the next hearing on December 8th. The report was submitted after an NGO moved the Supreme Court seeking direction to the Centre to apprise it about the progress made by the IT department in its probe against the Delhi-based meat exporter whose name reportedly figured many times in the entry register of the residence of Ranjit Sinha. |
Save Dissent to Save Democracy THE rising instances of physical violence and threats against political opponents and the inability to accept dissent must raise huge concerns amongst all of us who see democracy as perhaps the really stellar achievement since Independence. AAP’s attack on BJP headquarters and acts of arson committed under the very noses of their elite leadership; the attacks on Arvind Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia in Gujarat in the last two days; the recent manhandling of the caretaker of journalist Siddharth Varadarajan’s house by some garden variety thugs; and the violence and threats meted out regularly to their political opponents by political parties is surely deplorable and condemnable. This is a fatally flawed trend which will destroy the very foundations of our democratic institutions if not pushed back with all the strength and condemnation that the civil society can mobilise. Replaying the past To begin with, it must be clarified that we should ...
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