DATE: 17/11/2018
Saturday
CURRENT AFFAIRS
SOURCE: THE HINDU and Indian Express
Prepared by: Maharana Sibasankar
- Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal withdraw ‘General Consent’ to CBI
- Andhra Pradesh withdrew the ‘general consent’ granted to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
- The CBI and all agencies under the Delhi Special Police Establishment (DSPE) Act, 1946, will now have to approach the State government for permission on a casebycase basis.
- The general consent was routinely given for periods ranging from six months to a year for several years from now. The last such consent was given on August 3, 2018.
- West Bengal government also decided to withdraw the ‘general consent,’ a senior official at the State Secretariat in Kolkata said. The consent had been accorded to the CBI by the then Left Front government in 1989.
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