The book gives a deep first-hand insight into the CBI investigations, against the people at high places, concealing more and exposting less about the accused VIPs who cannot be embarrassed either in the process or by the findings of the investigation. They are the one who dictate to CBI whether to investigate or not and how to investigate. They only decide on prosecution or withdrawal and that too under the cover of public interest. The accused thus themselves assume the role of investigator, the prosecutor and even the judge. Subservient to this dangerous mindset, the investigative and enforcement agencies procure and collect the evidences to reinforce the pre-determined conclusions. The shade of Government make no difference. The author as a Joint Director in the CBI piloted the investigations of many important cases including the famour ‘Jain Hawala case’’ It was a God-sent opportunity for the CBI to clean the dirty stables of Indian politics and administration as the case had necessary potential as also the mandate of the Supreme Court to investigate the high and mighty. The CBI Director Vijay Rama Rao wanted to close the investigations by filing bogus chargesheets against some bureaucrats and subsequently included the names fo certain politicians in the list, but the author refused to oblige. Later the Director asked for chargesheeting certain high profile politicians from both the ruling and the opposition parties including LK Advani; but the author resisted an yblanket chargesheet without requisite evidence and instead advocated complete investigation, including searches for looking into the assets of all including the heavy weights like union ministers, leaders from other than the ruling parties, serving Prime Minister Narasimha Rao and also the former PM Rajiv Gandhi as their names had occurred in the diaries and the statements of Jains. The case was taken away from his charge and the chargesheets, devoid of any substance, were filed knowing fully well that these would fall at the very outset. The author warned the Director in Black and white that he was "scuttling the scam and betraying the Nation". The relentless fight of the author for truth and transparency in the CBI brought him in sharp confrontation with Director Joginder Singh, who defined the law for every individual differently and applied the tools of discipline to force the desired results out of the investigators. The author raised these trickly questions in the CBI conference with the then Prime Minister, Deve Gowda. Gowda listened to the author, but he ridiculed him and all the agencies who claimed to work against corruption. No wonder, the author was jettisioned not only out of the CBI, but from the Government of India itself, as if the biggest threat to government emanated from the truth that he advocated. Who Owns CBI: The Naked Truth is the book that explicitly bares the sordid games indulged into, by the high and mighty at various levels.
Who Owns CBI: The Naked Truth
by B R Lall
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR B R Lall
B.R. Lall joined the Indian Police Service (IPS) in 1967. He had his debut fight against corruption in the National Police Academy itself. He always enforced honesty strongly and earned wrath of the powers frequently. He was transferred from first district in 1971 within just five weeks and from second district in 1976-77 only after eight months for not meeting the illegal demands of those who mattered. His juniors continued as state police chief and heads of the Central Police Organisations for a number of years, despite the fact that he was on the promotion panel in the center. In April 2004, Election Commission selected his as State DGP of Haryana where he firmly ensured free and fair elections. In 1994, Vijay Rama Rao, the then Director CBI wanted some real live wire to head the most sensitive zone in the CBI and picked him up. Everything progressed well, till it became necessary to investigate the then Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao. The author plainly refused to spare him or to allow the general clemency ordinarily accorded by the CBI in its investigations to the people in high places. This happened in many other cases as well.
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Title
Who Owns CBI: The Naked Truth
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Edition
1st ed.
Publisher
Manas Publications, 2007
ISBN
8170492939
Length
338p., Tables; Figures; References; Annexures; Index; 23cm
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