PREMIER INVESTIGATING AGENCY CBI REGISTERS CORRUPTION CASE AGAINST ITS FORMER DIRECTOR RANJIT SINHA
The Central Bureau of Investigation has registered a corruption case against its former Director Ranjit Sinha on allegations of abusing his authority to scuttle enquiries, investigations and prosecutions in the coal block allocation cases. He happens to be the second CBI chief to have been booked by the agency in 2017.
The case was registered under the Prevention of Corruption Act on Monday pursuant to the Supreme Court directive to probe the charges.
According to the FIR, during the course of investigations in the coal block allocation cases, certain allegations were made about the “inappropriate conduct” of Mr. Sinha, the then CBI Director. The agency had instituted three preliminary enquiries pertaining to the allocations between 1993-2005 and 2006-2009 and 54 cases were registered against private persons and public servants.
