NEW DELHI — India’s Supreme Court reinstated the ousted director of India’s Central Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday in a setback to the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, which had removed him from the post in October. The court reinstated Alok Verma as director, quashing the government’s removal order and setting aside the appointment of an interim chief, according to the Press Trust of India news agency. Verma challenged the government’s decision to remove him from power during an agency inquiry of his deputy, Rakesh Asthana, petitioning the Supreme Court a day after his October ouster. The agency had alleged Asthana took bribes to settle a money-laundering investigation into a Hyderabad businessman. A special government committee ousted both Verma and Asthana in a late-night October raid that made a long-simmering internal feud between the two men public.

Source: Washington Post January 08, 2019 05:59 UTC