The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is the domestic crime investigating agency of India. It operates under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Personnel,Public Grievances and Pensions. Originally set up to investigate bribery and governmental corruption,in 1965 it received expanded jurisdiction to investigate breaches of central laws enforceable by the Government of India,multi-state organised crime,multi-agency or international cases. CBI is exempted from the provisions of the Right to Information Act. CBI is India's officially designated single point of contact to act as the liaison with Interpol. The CBI headquarter is located in CGO Complex,near Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi.
The Indian Police Service is a civil service under the All India Services. It replaced the Indian Imperial Police in 1948,a year after India became independent from the British Empire.
The Director General of Police (DGP) is the highest-ranking police officer in Indian states and union territories. The DGP is appointed by the cabinet and holds a three-star rank. The DGP is responsible for overseeing the entire police force and law enforcement activities within their respective jurisdiction. This position holds significant authority and plays a crucial role in maintaining law and order,implementing crime prevention strategies,and ensuring public safety. The DGP is usually appointed by the state government and works closely with other law enforcement agencies and government officials to uphold the rule of law and protect citizens' rights.
Jagdish Tytler is an Indian politician and former Member of Parliament. He has held several government positions,the last being as Minister of State for Overseas Indian Affairs,a post from which he resigned after publication of a report by an official commission of inquiry,known as the Nanavati Commission.
Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) is an Indian governmental body created in 1964 to address governmental corruption. In 2003,the Parliament enacted a law conferring statutory status on the CVC. It has the status of an autonomous body,free of control from any executive authority,charged with monitoring all vigilance activity under the Central Government of India,advising various authorities in central Government organizations in planning,executing,reviewing,and reforming their vigilance work.
The Fodder Scam was a corruption scandal that involved the embezzlement of about ₹940 crore from the government treasury of the north Indian state of Bihar. Among those implicated in the theft and arrested were then Chief Minister of Bihar,Lalu Prasad Yadav,as well as former Chief Minister,Jagannath Mishra. The scandal led to the end of Lalu's reign as Chief Minister. Dineshwar Prasad Sharma is also alleged to have received ₹300.60 crore from S. N. Sinha. On 23 December 2017,Lalu Prasad Yadav was convicted by a special CBI court while Jagannath Misra was acquitted.
Mission 90 Days is a 2007 Indian Malayalam-language film directed by retired Army officer and former commando Major AK Raveendran SM starring Mammooty. It is Major Ravi's second directorial venture and is based on the assassination of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and the following investigation.
The Commissioner of Police,Delhi or Delhi Police Commissioner is the head of the Delhi Police,the law enforcement agency of the 15 police districts of India's capital,Delhi.
The Bihar Police is the law enforcement agency for the state of Bihar,India,with its headquarters in Patna. It has a sanctioned strength of 111,000 personnel,and as of 2017,employs 77,000 personnel.
Upendranath Biswas or U. N. Biswas is a retired Indian Police Service (IPS) officer,caste historian,and an Indian politician. He is widely known for his probe into the Fodder Scam and for bringing down the once-powerful RJD leader and Bihar Chief Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav in 1997.
The Scorpène deal scam was an Indian bribery scandal,in which USD 175 million were alleged to have been paid to the Government of India’s defence procurement decision makers by Thales,a French defence and aerospace company. In 2005,the Minister of Defence,Pranab Mukherjee,approved the deal to build Scorpène-class submarines,which was worth US$3 billion with Thales. However,in 2008,the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI),found no evidence of corruption in the deal. Scorpène-class submarines are now being built in India under a technology transfer agreement that was part of that contract.
Shankar Mahadev Bidari is an Indian Police Service (IPS) officer,who was the Director General and Inspector General of Police (DGP) of the state of Karnataka.
Also referred to as the AgustaWestland VVIP chopper deal,the Indian helicopter bribery scandal by Congress led UPA Government refers to a multimillion-dollar corruption case in India,wherein money was paid to middlemen and Indian officials in 2006 and 2007 to purchase helicopters for high level politicians. As per the CBI,this amounted to ₹2.5 billion (US$30 million),transferred through bank accounts in the UK and UAE.
Ranjit Sinha was an Indian police officer and was the former director of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). He was the director general of police of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) and the director general of the Railway Protection Force before joining as the CBI director in December 2012 for a two-year tenure. He has also served in senior positions in the CBI in Patna and Delhi.
On 15 June 2004,officers of the Ahmedabad Police Crime Branch and members of the Subsidiary Intelligence Bureau (SIB) of Ahmedabad shot and killed four people. Those killed in the incident were Ishrat Jahan Raza,a 19-year-old woman from Mumbra,Maharashtra,and three men –Javed Ghulam Sheikh,Amjad Ali Rana and Zeeshan Johar. The Indian Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) made allegations about the entire operation being an instance of "encounter killing". The state agencies and police claimed that Ishrat Jahan and her associates were Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operatives involved in a plot to assassinate the Chief Minister of Gujarat,Narendra Modi.
The Vyapam scam was an entrance examination,admission and recruitment scam. It was functional since the 1990s and was finally unearthed in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh in 2013.
Neeraj Kumar is a former Commissioner of Delhi Police who retired from the Indian Police Service (IPS) on 31 July 2013. Neeraj Kumar belonged to 1976 batch and AGMUT cadre and has recently completed his tenure as the Chief Advisor to the BCCI for their Anti Corruption &Security Unit (ACSU).
Alok Kumar Verma is a former director of the Central Bureau of Investigation in India,who also served as Commissioner of Delhi Police and Director General of Tihar Jail. A 1979 batch IPS officer of the Arunachal Pradesh-Goa-Mizoram and Union Territories cadre,Verma has over 39 years of experience in the Indian Police Service (IPS).
Yogesh Chander Modi is the former Director-General/Chief of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) of India. A retired 1984 batch officer of the Assam-Meghalaya cadre,Y.C. Modi has over 33 years of experience in the Indian Police Service (IPS). He served as Director-General of the NIA from October 30,2017 and hold this position till his superannuation on May 31,2021. The Director-General is highest ranking agency executive in the NIA appointed by central/federal government of India,and Y.C. Modi is the 4th person to hold this post after Radha Vinod Raju,SC Sinha and Sharad Kumar.
Rajeev Kumar PPM IPS is an Indian police officer and bureaucrat,who is serving as the Director General of West Bengal Police,since July 2024. Previously he served in the same post from December 2023 until was removed by Election Commission of India in March 2024. Prior to his office,he is also additional chief secretary of Information Technology of West Bengal Government since 2023.
