Always go by the law: Top court tells CBI officer
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi:08.02.2019
Giving a piece of advice to young government officers to always go by the law and not blindly follow the instructions of senior officers and political bosses, the Supreme Court told a CBI officer on Thursday that “the law is your only master”.
After being slammed by the court for transferring its officer supervising the shelter home rape cases of Bihar, the CBI filed an affidavit within an hour through superintendent of police Devender Singh, who is part of the probe team and was present in court.
Finding that the affidavit was not filed by the competent authority as the officer was of SP rank and it should have been filed by a senior officer, a bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justices Deepak Gupta and Sanjiv Khanna asked him on whose instruction he had filed the affidavit.
The officer replied that it was done on the instruction of former interim CBI chief M Nageswara Rao who is at present working as additional director in the agency.
The bench advised the officer to be cautious while filing an affidavit in court. “Never ever file an affidavit on anyone’s order without personal satisfaction. The law is your only master, not politicians and bureaucrats. Always keep it in mind,” the court said.
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi:08.02.2019
Giving a piece of advice to young government officers to always go by the law and not blindly follow the instructions of senior officers and political bosses, the Supreme Court told a CBI officer on Thursday that “the law is your only master”.
After being slammed by the court for transferring its officer supervising the shelter home rape cases of Bihar, the CBI filed an affidavit within an hour through superintendent of police Devender Singh, who is part of the probe team and was present in court.
Finding that the affidavit was not filed by the competent authority as the officer was of SP rank and it should have been filed by a senior officer, a bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justices Deepak Gupta and Sanjiv Khanna asked him on whose instruction he had filed the affidavit.
The officer replied that it was done on the instruction of former interim CBI chief M Nageswara Rao who is at present working as additional director in the agency.
The bench advised the officer to be cautious while filing an affidavit in court. “Never ever file an affidavit on anyone’s order without personal satisfaction. The law is your only master, not politicians and bureaucrats. Always keep it in mind,” the court said.
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