{"id":338564,"date":"2020-02-21T12:42:30","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T07:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=338564"},"modified":"2020-02-21T13:44:45","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T08:14:45","slug":"sc-directs-cbi-to-file-report-on-probe-against-ex-cbi-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/sc-directs-cbi-to-file-report-on-probe-against-ex-cbi-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"SC directs CBI to file report on probe against ex-CBI chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme court on Wednesday directed the CBI to file fresh status report within four weeks on probe into the charges of &#8216;abuse of official position&#8217; by former agency chief Ranjit Sinha and the progress made in over 50 coal scam cases. <\/p>\n<p>A bench of Chief Justice S A Bobde and Deepak Gupta granted time to the agency after it sought time. <\/p>\n<p>Sinha is accused of trying to impede the CBI&#8217;s investigation into the cases, which emerged in 2012 after a report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) was leaked to the media. The apex court dismissed the plea field by lawyer M L Sharma seeking a direction to the CBI to take coercive steps against Naveen Jindal, allegedly main beneficiary of coal scam cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme court on Wednesday directed the CBI to file fresh status report within four weeks on probe into the charges of &#8216;abuse of official position&#8217; by former agency chief Ranjit Sinha and the progress made in over 50 coal scam cases. A bench of Chief Justice S A Bobde and Deepak Gupta granted time to the agency after it sought time. Sinha is accused of trying to impede the CBI&#8217;s investigation into the cases, which emerged in 2012 after a report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) was leaked to the media. The apex court dismissed the plea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[214,130,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}