Vinod Rai (Telegraph file)It’s a highly embarrassing blow to Vinod Rai, who heads the two-member Committee of Administrators (CoA), appointed by the Supreme Court. According to well-placed sources of The Telegraph, former Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) director P.C. It’s a conflict of interest as the Board’s lawyers had, of late, been interacting exclusively with Johri. Rai, who is a retired bureaucrat, obviously had no thorough background checks done before announcing that Justice (Retd) Rakesh Sharma, Barkha Singh and the former CBI director would look into the allegations against Johri. This Reporter understands that Sharma's replacement would most likely be a lady, thereby making it two women on the three-member panel.

Source: The Telegraph October 28, 2018 22:07 UTC