EX-CBI CHIEF APOLOGISES

In the dock for transferring the senior most investigating officer of the Muzaffarpur shelter home rape cases, former interim CBI chief M Nageswara Rao has tendered an unconditional apology before the Supreme Court and said he “cannot even dream of violating the court orders”. Submitting his affidavit in response to a show cause notice by the top court, Rao said he realises that he should not have issued the order relieving investigating officer AK Sharma without the court’s permission. ‘‘I sincerely realise my mistake and while tendering my unqualified and unconditional apology, I specially state I have not wilfully violated the order of this court as I cannot even dream of violating or circumventing order of this court," Rao's affidavit reads. ‘‘You have played with our orders. God help you," Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi had told Rao during the last hearing. Sharma was shifted out as part of the overnight mass transfer that followed the public feud between the agency's former chief

Alok Verma and his deputy Rakesh Asthana.