Weeks after the Supreme Court upheld a Delhi High Court order on the registration of an FIR against former CBI Joint Director Neeraj Kumar in a 2000 incident, he and former CBI inspector Vinod Kumar Pandey have been named in the FIR registered in the case, but not as accused. The section where names of the accused are usually mentioned says ‘unknown’.

The FIR, which comes 25 years after allegations were made against Kumar and Pandey, invokes sections regarding criminal conspiracy, forgery, and criminal intimidation, among others. Kumar was serving as the Joint Director of CBI at the time of the incident.

Kumar also served as the Delhi Police Commissioner between 2012 and 2013. He retired in 2013.

In its order on September 10, the Supreme Court had said it was “high time that sometimes

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