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The recent revelation that CBI facilitated the withdrawal of Red Corner notice against Quattrocchi is symptomatic of the rot that has crept in the entire system. Moreover, Congress General Secretary Digvijay Singh's recent threat to ‘use' CBI against political opponents doesn't now seem a hollow one - it is very much real. Congress enjoys an unassailable record in misusing the constitutional institutions, CBI included, to serve its political interests. It is so overwhelmingly obsessed that it even repeatedly risks exposing itself to Supreme Court reprimands. While the controversy over appointment of Shri Navin Chawla in the Election Commission still persists, CBI is not far behind in controversies.
Congress yielding to widespread uproar against its decision to field Jagdish Tytler and Sajjan Kumar in the Lok Sabha elections has not absolved Criminal Bureau of Investigation (CBI) of its complicity in the entire episode. It is for the first time in the country that CBI has been publicly cornered and humiliated for its allegedly partisan role.
Shorn of credibility CBI today is perceived as a meek, incompetent and biased agency which can be easily arm-twisted politically at will. The manner in which Jagdish Tytler was sought to be given clean chit by CBI in the cases related to 1984 Congress-instigated riots against Sikhs has robbed it of whatever little credibility that was left. Everything looked stage managed. CBI first filed an application before the court for closure of the case for lack of credible evidence and then, before the court could give its order on CBI request, Congress nominated Tytler as its candidate for Lok Sabha from Delhi. Earlier too, CBI in its charge sheet on September 29, claimed that Jasbir Singh, who had allegedly heard Tytler inciting a mob to kill Sikhs, could not be examined as he had settled in US and his whereabouts were not known. The CBI's claim quickly got falsified when media telephonically located Jasbir Singh. What can be termed as a deliberate attempt to shield Tytler was that the CBI also avoided tracking Jasbir Singh's testimony given to Jain-Aggarwal Committee and Nanavati Commission. Now after the case was ordered to be re-investigated by court, CBI reportedly submitted that Jasbir Singh's testimony cannot be relied upon urging the court to close the case. CBI assumed the role of a judge itself. The resultant uproar that became a wild fire in the wake of the shoe hurled at Home Minister Shri PC Chidambaram by a journalist created major embarrassment for CBI and the UPA government.
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