CBI becomes parrot in cage: SC

The 3 member Supreme Court bench led by Justice RM Lodha, which took-up CBI director Ranjit Sinha’s 9page affidavit that details the interference and influence of political executives into its coal mine allotment’s report, has lashed at all the concerned officials, bureaucrats of the government, CBI and the law minister Ashwini Kumar.

The court has opined the CBI has becomes a parrot in the cage and it needs to be freed immediately. It directs the government to bring necessary amendments in the existing laws to free the CBI from government grip before 10th July, otherwise warns that the court itself will make the CBI free.

The court expressing its anguish on CBI has said “CBI is intended to investigate and not interact with political executives. It has committed a grave mistake by allowing the politicians and bureaucrats to share and alter its report. All of they have changed the central theme of the report as they wished. CBI director will be made responsible for this entire conspiracy. We order the CBI and the government to bring back the DIG Ravikantha Mishra back to CBI from IB and entrust this coal mines investigating job to him, who earlier has handled it. None from the government, including CBI lawyers are allowed to interfere in the CBI’s investigating. If, CBI needs some experts’ help, the court will provide assistance. If, the government fails to implement our orders, we will be obliged to constitute a special investigating team (SIT) to investigate the irregularities taken place in coal mines case.”

However, the court didn’t take any action against anyone, who has lied to it over sharing and tampering of the CBI report. This gives a great relief to the UPA government, which is standing on the receiving end all these days.