THE Supreme Court has punished CBI Interim Director Nageshwara Rao for contempt of court: specifically for flouting the explicit orders of the SC and transferring the CBI Investigating Officer in-charge of the Muzaffarpur Shelter-Home case in which more than 40 girls were subjected to systematic sexual assault inside a shelter home. It is well-known that prominent political leaders, close to the JDU-BJP Government in power in Bihar and the Centre, have been trying to protect the accused. Now, it seems that the Modi Government’s puppet officers in the CBI are trying to interfere even in the SC-monitored investigation!
CBI Director Alok Varma was removed by the Modi Government in a highly condemnable move. Then the CBI was used as a political tool to stage a raid on the Kolkata chief of police on the eve of elections, even as the CBI failed to act against Saradha scam-accused persons who have become BJP leaders. And now, it has emerged that the CBI which is being manipulated by Modi and Amit Shah, is being used to try and weaken the investigation into the Muzaffarpur shelter-home sexual assault case. Yet again, the Modi Government’s Beti Bachao slogan has proved to be a cruel joke.
CPIML demands that the SCI Interim Director be sacked for his role in transferring the Investigating Officer in the Shelter Home rape case.
