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CBI officer probing FIR against Asthana moves Supreme Court, challenges transfer to Nagpur

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New Delhi | A CBI officer, who was probing the FIR lodged against Special Director Rakesh Asthana, Monday moved the Supreme Court seeking quashing of his transfer to Nagpur in Maharashtra.

Manish Kumar Sinha, an IPS officer who was part of the investigation team probing Asthana’s role in an alleged corruption case, mentioned his plea before a bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi for urgent hearing tomorrow.

The bench also comprising Justices S K Kaul and K M Joseph is scheduled to hear tomorrow the plea of CBI Director Alok Kumar Verma challenging the government’s decision of divesting him of duties and sending him on leave. Sinha said that his plea be also heard along with Verma tomorrow.

He has alleged that he was transferred to Nagpur and as a result has been taken out from the probe team investigating the FIR against Asthana. Asthana has also been divested of his duties and sent on leave by the central government following his ongoing feud with the CBI Director.

The CBI had booked Asthana on allegations of receiving a bribe from an accused probed by him in a case linked to meat exporter Moin Qureshi.

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First Ram Temple, Then government formation: Uddhav Thackeray coins new slogan

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Uddhav thackeray’s Ayodhya visit is largely seen as an attempt to bring the Ram Temple issue to the table once again before the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

 

Mumbai| The Ram Temple issue seems to be intensifying more after the recent remarks by Thackeray. “Har Hindu ki yahi pukaar, Pehle Mandir Fir Sarkar,” said Shivsena Chief Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday. The new slogan coined by Uddhav Thackeray ahead of his Ayodhya visit calls for the construction of Ram Temple in Ayodhya before the formation of government in 2019.

Before Thackeray’s Ayodhya visit to be undertaken on November 24 and November 25, the senior party members of Shivsena held a meeting to review whether all the preparations are in place. Thackeray later conducted a press conference in which he coined the new slogan saying that every Hindu has only one demand, implying that Hindus in the country want the Ram Temple first then they will decide about the government.

With this slogan, the Shivsena has taken another jibe at its ally in the state and central government-BJP. Uddhav Thackeray’s Ayodhya visit is largely seen as an attempt to bring the Ram Temple issue to the table once again before the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

However, this isn’t the first time, the Sena has taken a dig at the saffron party for its failure to keep the promise of construction of Ram Temple in Ayodhya. Earlier, Uddhav Thackeray, in Sena’s Dussehra rally in which the party announces its major plans had expressed disappointment over the handling of Ram Temple issue by the ruling BJP.

On the day of Thackeray’s visit to Ayodhya, the party has asked all its workers across the state to conduct a “Maha Aarati” (Grand Prayer).

Since the Supreme Court verdict deferred the Ayodhya judgment to 2019, the BJP government had come under pressure from several Hindu outfits to bring an ordinance to construct Ram Temple.

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