Former CBI chief Ranjit Sinha passes away at 68

He earlier headed the Indo-Tibetan Border Police and the Railway Protection Force and was appointed the CBI chief in December 2012 for a fixed tenure of two years.

April 16, 2021 09:50 am | Updated 11:38 am IST - New Delhi

Former CBI director Ranjit Sinha. File photo

Former CBI director Ranjit Sinha. File photo

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.

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