Will ensure appointment of CBI director, transparency issue can be raised later, says SC

The Supreme Court Friday said its endeavour is to ensure that a regular CBI Director is appointed "immediately" and the issue of transparency in the selection process can be raised by the petitioner in future litigation.

The apex court, which was hearing a petition filed by NGO Common Cause challenging the Centre's decision to appoint M Nageswara Rao as an interim CBI director, said the issue of transparency raised by the petitioner was "pre-mature" at this stage.

A bench of Justices Arun Mishra and Navin Sinha observed this after advocate Prashant Bhushan, appearing for the NGO, argued that the top court must deal with issue of transparency in the process to appoint CBI director.

"You want an immediate appointment. Let us stop there. Let the appointment be made first. If you have any grievance that the process is not followed and transparency was not there then you can challenge it later," the bench told Bhushan.

"We cannot lay down general guidelines at this stage. When you will ...