Ex CBI Chief Alok Verma Denies Times Now Claim of Writing to Prez

Alok Verma termed it a “deliberate mischief” by the channel to create differences between him and the government.

Former CBI chief Alok Verma on Thursday, 3 October dismissed a report by TV news channel Times Now that claimed he wrote a letter to the president alleging “political witch-hunt” in a probe against him and termed it a “deliberate mischief” by the news channel.

The news report claimed that Verma had written to President Ram Nath Kovind seeking withdrawal of the chargesheets served upon him by the Home Ministry as part of a departmental enquiry, terming them a result of “political witch-hunt” for not toeing the government line.