AGARTALA, Oct 27 (TIWN): A statewide protest of CITU was organized in Tripura on Modi Govt's biggest scam Rafale Scam.

In all subdivisions protests were organized on this issue. The theme of the protest was demand of resignation of Nirmala Sitharaman, the Defence Minister. 

The Rafale Deal Controversy is a political controversy in India related to the purchase of 36 multirole fighter aircraft for a price estimated to be worth Rs 58,000 crore by The Defence Ministry of India from France's Dassault Aviation. Origin of the deal lies in the Indian MRCA competition.

Nirmala Sitharaman is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party, currently serving as the Minister of Defence in the Narendra Modi government. She is also a member of the Rajya Sabha for Karnataka.

Noteworthy, the CBI said on Friday it would follow in 'letter and spirit" the Supreme Court order directing the CVC to complete its probe into bribery allegations involving CBI Director Alok Verma.

The court has asked the Central Vigilance Commission to complete the probe under the supervision of a retired apex court judge, Justice AK Patnaik, in two weeks.

Central Bureau of Investigation spokesperson Abhishek Dayal said, "We will follow the SC order in letter and spirit and whenever necessary, we will seek legal opinion."

Making it clear that prolonging the inquiry was not in the nation's best interest, a bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, Justice Sanjay Krishan Kaul and Justice K.M. Joseph said the inquiry would be conducted on the allegations contained in the Cabinet Secretary's August 24 note to the CVC.

As Attorney General K.K. Venugopal told the court that the inquiry should not be on the allegation against Verma but also on the allegations raised against CBI Special Director Rakesh Asthana, Chief Justice Gogoi said: "We are only concerned with Verma." 

The court also asked the officiating Director M. Nageswara Rao not to take any policy or major decision except for routine ones. 

It directed all decisions taken by Rao "after taking over charge till this hour" (when the order was being dictated) to be submitted to the court in a sealed envelope by November 12. 

The court said it may reverse or retain Rao's decisions.

In a dramatic midnight action, the government on Wednesday divested CBI chief Verma of his charge and made Joint Director M. Nageshwar Rao interim director.

The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) took the decision past midnight as war between CBI chief Verma and Special Director Rakesh Asthana escalated over bribery allegations hurled at each other.

Asthana was also divested of all supervisory charges on Tuesday.

Verma and Asthana had been at war for nearly a year now. Both the top officials have levelled allegations of bribery against each other in the meat exporter Moin Qureshi case.