Law is your only master, SC tells young CBI officer
TNN | Feb 8, 2019, 04:44 ISTNEW DELHI 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. A bench of CJI 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.
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. A bench of CJI 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.
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