CBI to be out of Lokpal ambit
Source: The Sangai Express / (Agencies)
New Delhi, December 20 2011:
Not yielding to Anna Hazare's demand, government is understood to have decided to keep CBI out of control of the proposed Lokpal.
This is the view that has emerged out of the discussions senior ministers, who are lawyers in their own right, had among themselves and had reportedly recommended to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
The draft Cabinet note, to which officials of the Personnel and Legislative Department had given final touches last night, was sent to the prime minister who has cleared it for the special Cabinet meeting tonight.
Home Minister P Chidambaram, Law Minister Salman Khurshid and Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal discussed the amendments to the Lokpal yesterday and finalised the changes.
Minister of State for Personnel V Narayansamy was also part of these discussions.
Sources said that the Lokpal would have no no control over the CBI, a demand strongly pursued by Hazare and his team during the last several months.