Former Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) chief Ranjit Sinha passed away in the early hours of Friday. He was 68.
It is learnt that Mr. Sinha, a 1974-batch IPS officer of Bihar cadre, was tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday.
He earlier headed the Indo-Tibetan Border Police and the Railway Protection Force. He was appointed the CBI chief in December 2012 for a fixed tenure of two years.
During his stint in the CBI, the Supreme Court had in 2013 observed that the agency was a “caged parrot that speaks in its master’s voice”. Mr. Sinha had then said: “Whatever Supreme Court said is correct.”
In 2017, pursuant to a Supreme Court directive, the CBI had registered a case against Mr. Sinha for alleged abuse of authority to scuttle inquiries, investigations and prosecutions in the coal block allocation cases.