Central Bureau of Investigation

The brother of gangster Sohrabuddin Shaikh, who was killed in an alleged fake encounter along with his wife and an associate, has filed an appeal in the Bombay High Court, challenging the acquittal of all 22 accused in the case.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday filed a fresh plea in the Supreme Court seeking permission to arrest former Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar

CBI has again summoned Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar after questioning him on Monday along with former Trinamool Congress MP Kunal Ghosh in connection with the Saradha and Rose Valley chit fund scams.

The tenures of two senior IPS officers – Anish Prasad and Abhay Singh – at the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) have been curtailed, according to a Personnel Ministry order issued Wednesday.

Referring to the recent face-off between the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and Kolkata Police, the Bombay High Court on Wednesday observed, the world is watching all the happenings in India, which is the largest democracy in the world.

Prakash Javadekar hailed the Supreme Court’s verdict in the CBI versus West Bengal police commissioner case stating that Mamata Banerjee hampered the investigation agency’s probe as she wants to save herself.

Punjab minister and Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu on Monday alleged that the CBI is being made to act like a “puppet” and there is an attempt to turn democracy into “danda tantra”.

An all-out war broke out between the Centre and the Mamata Banerjee government on Sunday, with the feisty West Bengal leader beginning a sit-in protest at a city landmark over the CBI’s attempt to question the Kolkata Police chief in connection with chit fund scams, insisting it stifled the spirit of “Constitution and federalism”.

Taking a dig at the Opposition, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that when the Central Bureau of Investigation does its job, the opposition parties call it a political vendetta and when it doesn’t.

In more trouble for senior Congress leader Bhupinder Singh Hooda, the CBI booked the former Haryana chief minister on cheating and corruption charges in connection with land acquisition in Gurgaon that favoured private builders and also conducted searches at 20 locations including his Rohtak residence.