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. The CBI has attracted numerous controversies and criticisms due to various reports of irregular practises,excessive political influence,and a poor conviction rate. CBI is exempted from the provisions of the Right to Information Act. CBI is India's officially designated single point of contact for liaison with the Interpol.
The Indian Police Service is a civil service under the All India Services. It replaced the Imperial Police in 1948,a year after India became independent from the British Raj.
The Ministry of Railways is a ministry in the Government of India,responsible for the country's rail transport. The ministry operates as the statutory body of the Indian Railways,an organisation that operates as a monopoly in rail transport and is headed by the Chairman and CEO of Railway Board. The Ministry of Railways along with the Railway Board is housed inside Rail Bhawan in New Delhi.
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. The commission had accused that he had a hand in organizing attacks on the Sikh community in Delhi after Sikh bodyguards assassinated the Prime Minister,Indira Gandhi,during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. He has been charged with crimes related to those riots by CBI who filed a chargesheet against Jagdish Tytler on May 20,2023.
Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) is an apex 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 ₹9.4 billion 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. Dr. Dineshwar Prasad Sharma is also alleged to have received ₹300.60 crores 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 National Capital of India,Delhi.
Upendranath Biswas or U. N. Biswas is an Indian politician,caste historian and a retired Indian Police Service (IPS) officer. He served as the Minister of Backward Classes Welfare in the Government of West Bengal from 2011 to 2016 in the First Banerjee ministry.
The Scorpene deal scam was an Indian bribery scandal,in which USD 175 million were alleged to have been paid to government decision makers by Thales. Defence minister Pranab Mukherjee had approved a deal to build Scorpène-class submarines worth US$3 billion with Thales,France in October 2005. The investigating agency,Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI),found no evidence of corruption in the deal in 2008. Scorpène-class submarines are now being built in India under a technology transfer agreement that was part of that contract.
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$31 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.
The Ishrat Jahan case is an ongoing case where officers of the Ahmedabad Police Crime Branch and members of the Subsidiary Intelligence Bureau (SIB) of Ahmedabad are accused of fatally shooting four terrorist suspect people unlawfully on 15 June 2004 in an "encounter killing".
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.
Bhim Sain Bassi or more commonly B.S. Bassi is an Indian Police Service (IPS) officer and has served as a member of the Union Public Service Commission since 31 May 2016 to February 2021. He served as the Commissioner of Police,Delhi from August 2013 to February 2016. He previously served as the Special Commissioner of Police (Administration) of Delhi Police (2012–13),Special Commissioner of Police (Traffic) of Delhi Police (2011-2012),Director General of Police of Goa Police (2009-2011) and Inspector General of Police of Chandigarh Police (2000-2002).
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).
Abhishek Verma is a billionaire arms dealer globally known as the 'Lord of War' and was the main suspect in the Scorpene Submarines deal scandal but was exonerated by Indian Courts in 2015.
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 1984 batch officer of the Assam-Meghalaya cadre,Y.C. Modi has over 33 years of experience in the Indian Police Service (IPS). He was designated the Director-General of the NIA on October 30,2017 and will hold the 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.
