Ishrat Case: Satish Verma’s term with CBI to end in April
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- Saturday, 16 March 2013 15:55
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Gujarat Global News Network, Ahmedabad
Gujarat Cadre IPS officer Satish Verma, who is assisting the CBI with the Ishrat Jahan encounter investigation, it set to return to service with the state government from May 1.
The Gujarat HC had asked Verma to assist the CBI in the probe in to the encounter of Ishrat Jahan and three others. As Verma’s term with the CBI is set to end on April 30, CBI counsel Yogesh Ravani’s requested to the court that Verma’s term be extended for another four months.
But government pleader Prakash Jani disagreed and asked that Verma be sent back to Gujarat as he was a senior police officer and his services were required. Jani argued that CBI had a team of senior police officers who could handle the case and it was nearly a year since Verma was allowed to assist CBI.
The court ordered that Verma would remain with CBI for the case till April 30 and then would be repatriated to Gujarat-cadre. The bench also observed that his services could not be made available to CBI indefinitely.
Meanwhile the court also expressed satisfaction with the CBI probe. the division bench of Justices Jayant Patel and Abhilasha Kumari said the pace and direction of the probe were satisfactory. “It looks like in past two months CBI has made a substantial progress,” the judges said. The court asked the asked the central agency to submit its further progress report by May 9.
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