New Delhi, The Chief Vigilance Commissioner on Friday summoned Central Bureau of Investigation Director Alok Verma for the second consecutive day here in connection with the allegedly bribery charges, leveled against him by his deputy Rakesh Asthana.

CBI Special director Rakesh Asthana was also summoned by the CVC on Friday, officials said.CBI Director Verma appeared before the probe panel headed by CVC KV Chaudhary and countered the corruption charges leveled by CBI Special Director Asthana.

According to officials, Mr Verma has given point to point rebuttal to all the allegations made against him.Mr Ashthan has made serious allegations against Mr Verma.The probe panel consists of CVC and other two Vigilance Commissioners T M Bhasin and Sharad Kumar.

Justice A K Patnaik, a retired Supreme Court judge, who has been asked by the Supreme Court to supervise the CVC inquiry, was also present during the questioning of Verma and Asthana, officials said.

The CVC has been asked by the apex court to complete and submit its inquiry report on November 12 in this connection.The squabble between Mr Verma and Mr Asthana recently led to registration of an FIR against the latter and others include Deputy Superintendent of Police Devender Kumar, who is in CBI custody in an alleged bribery case.

The Central probe agency on October 15 registered the FIR against Asthana for allegedly receiving a bribe of Rs 2 crore from Hyderabad-based businessman Sana Sathish Babu which was given through two middlemen Manoj Prasad and Somesh Prasad to sabotage the probe against meat exporter Moin Qureshi.

The CBI Special Director also on October 24 complained to the Cabinet Secretary, alleging that Mr verma had received a brribe of Rs two crore from Sana to help him in getting relief from questioning in the matter.