Chief Justice of India N.V. Ramana has warned India’s premier investigative agency, Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), that its aura of reverence has grown dull.
The agency is under “deep public scrutiny”. Its “actions and inactions” have raised questions about its credibility. The public clamour in courts for a CBI investigation — once a byword for impartiality — is losing reverberance, and will die unless the agency breaks its “nexus” with the political executive, the top judge said.
