The Congress on Friday attacked the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) after the high-power committee headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi used its report to remove Alok Verma as the CBI chief.
At a press conference at the party headquarters, its spokesman Abhishek Singhvi said the CVC now stood for “Collaborator in Violating the Constitution”.
“The CVC report can never be a substitute for a due process of law enquiry. The committee has overlooked the fact that the CVC report, which is the sole basis of the its conclusions, is based upon charges raised by a complainant (Rakesh Asthana) who is not only himself under CBI investigation but whose petition to stop and quash such investigation has been dismissed today,” Mr. Singhvi alleged. “The entire CVC report is based on conjectures, premises, speculations and unsubstantiated inferences... The CVC itself concedes there is no direct evidence of payment of the bribe of ₹2 crore, yet this is one of the four alleged reasons relied upon for the removal of Mr. Verma,” he said.
