Mumbai : With just 50-odd days in their hands to complete a complex probe involving a media tycoon, a lobbyist businessman and a driver, Joint Director of the elite CBI’s Special Task Force Nina Singh, has been on the move all across Mumbai.
Armed with a Master’s degree from Harvard University, Singh, known as one of the hand-picked sleuths of CBI Director Anil Sinha, is these days flanked by her colleague, Deputy Inspector General Lata Manoj Kumar. The two women are on a mission—to unravel the Sheena Bora mystery.
“They have started working with extreme secrecy and their movements are not even known to some of the CBI men in its Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) in Colaba. Singh has created several small teams comprising officers of her choice,” said a source close to the CBI.
Singh has an impeccable track record being the lead investigator of critical NRHM scam in Uttar Pradesh in which former UP CM Mayawati is one of the suspects. Singh, who was conferred the President’s Medal in 2014 for distinguished service, also spearheaded the Dayanidhi Maran telecom scam. “She is not new to Mumbai’s crime map. She handled the probe of Agnello Valdaris custodial death case in Wadala and she is also holding additional charge of head of Special Crime Branch unit of CBI’s Mumbai wing,” said a CBI source. Singh is married to senior Rajasthan bureaucrat Rohit Singh.
Kumar, recently promoted as DIG, was holding charge of DCP (Traffic) in Jaipur, where she earned the wrath of the then chief minister Ashok Gehlot. She was ‘punished’ by being sent as the Commandant of 12th Battalion of RAC in Delhi by the state government.
Singh and Kumar have Keshav Kumar, Joint Director based in Mumbai, to provide any additional help. He is a Gujarat-cadre IPS who led the Adarsh scamprobe.
The duo is being assisted by a dozen CBI officers in the rank of DySP, inspector and sub-inspectors, from SCB units across the country. “Together, they make a great team,” said the source.
