Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi wondered why Parliament had not prescribed any ''specific protection'' for the CBI Director, unlike the Central Vigilance Commissioner. The SC reserved its order on petitions challenging the government's decision to divest CBI Director Alok Verma of his charge, observing that problems between him and Special Director Rakesh Asthana was "not something that happened overnight to require immediate action".

CBI Director Alok Verma appeared before a-panel headed by Central Vigilance Commissioner K V Chowdary and countered the corruption charges levelled against him by his deputy and special director in probe-agency Rakesh Asthana for the second-consecutive-day, officials said. Justice A K Patnaik, a retired SC judge, who has been asked by the apex court to supervise the CVC inquiry was also present, officials said.

The Central Vigilance Commission (CVC), scrambling to meet the Supreme Court mandated two-week deadline to complete its inquiry into allegations levelled by CBI special director Rakesh Asthana against his boss and agency chief Alok Verma, worked on the occasion of Diwali on Wednesday and recorded the statement of one the of the key characters in the whole saga, Hyderabad-based businessman Sana Satish Babu said.