Ignoring the objections raised by Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge, the Centre is likely to announce the nameꦯ of next CBI chief soon.
During the second meeting of the committee on Friday, the government is understood to have put forth a few names of proba♔ble contenders who could be considered for appointment as the CBI director, 🦄officials said.
However, these names were objec𓃲ted to by Kha🔯rge, who is part of the three-member committee, the officials said.
Senior IPS officers of 1984 batch, Javeed Ahmed, Rajni Kant Misra and S S Deswal, are said to be among the top contenders for♒ the coveꦛted post.
Ahmed, an officer 🍨o🐎f Uttar Pradesh cadre, is at present the chief of National Institute of Criminology and Forensic Sciences here.
Ahmed's cadre and batchmate Misra is head of the ꧒Border Security Force (BSF).
Deswal, who🐼 is from Haryana cadre, is the director general of Indo-Tibetan Border Poli🐭ce (ITBP).
"The meeting was inconclusiv♍e. No decision could be taken during the meeting," a senior government official said, without citing further details on the selection commi𝄹ttee's meeting.
The development assumes♑ 𓆉significance as earlier in the day, the Supreme Court said it was "averse" to the arrangement of an interim CBI director and the Centre should "immediately" appoint a regular chief of the probe agency.
The post of CBI director is "sensitive" and "imꦕportant", and it is not good to keep an interim director of the agency for a longer peri🍨od, the top court observed and sought to know as to why the government has not made the appointment yet.
The post of the CBI chief has been lying vac൩ant since January 10 after the unceremonious exit of Alok Verma, who had been engaged in a bitter fight with Gujarat-cad🌸re IPS officer Rakesh Asthana over corruption charges.
Both Verma and Asthan♚a 🅺had accused each other of corruption.
M Nageswara Rao has been working as the interim CBI ch🔜ief after Verma's ou💃ster.
Friday's meeting was held at the prim🅠e minister's residence - that lasted for over an hour - and wa🌠s attended by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Kharge.
The panel's January 24 meeting had▨ also remained inconclusive.
A list of eligible officers along with their dossiers was sh🧸ared 𒀰with the panel members in the last meeting.
"The government presented names of 70-80 officers. There was no mention of their career details including relevant experience. We (referring to CJI Gogoi) have asked them to provide all the necessary details. The next meeting will be convened maybe by next ♈week," Kharge had told reporters after the January 24 meeting.
Verma, after being removed from the post♐ of CBI director by the PM-led panel, was named as the Director General of Fire Services, Civil Defence and Home 🎶Guards -- a less significant portfolio.
Verma did not accept the offer and w🅷rote to the government, saying he should be considered as deemed superannuated as he has completed 60 years a🧸ge of superannuation on July 31, 2017.
He had taken over as the CBI chief on February 1, 2017, for a fixed t𝐆wo-year tenure that ended Thursday.
PTI
