Advocate for the petitioner, Dushyant Dave, was not pleased with the further delay and appeared to lash out at Justice Sikri. He stated that there was an impression that the Court does not wish to hear the matter and suggested that the Justices could have recused themselves earlier.
The secret note against Asthana prepared by CBI special unit had 22 entries, but the report submitted to CVC had 23 entries, with one added by Alok Verma
The petition filed in Delhi HC claimed that phones of several other people were also tapped when the CBI was witnessing a feud between its then Director Alok Verma and Special Director Rakesh Asthana.
A K Sikri was nominated for Commonwealth Secretariat Arbitral Tribunal in November 2018, much before any knew that he would representing CJI Gogoi in CBI Director selection committee