Is CBI a Congress Bureau of Investigation?
The question was asked against the backdrop of the speed with which the CBI acted in the Shorabuddin encounter case against Gujarat Deputy Home Minister Amit Shah. While going after cops and Shah in Gujarat, the CBI was conspicuously silent on the role played by the Andhra Pradesh cops. The CBI now wants to go after cops and politicians in Rajasthan — another State that was ruled by the BJP. The CBI and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had taken the high moral ground that the investigations have not been influences and that it is proceeding as per the directions of the Supreme Court orders. “Well, there is no truth in that (BJP charge). The opposition knows it jolly well. This Sohrabuddin case is a Supreme Court-directed investigation. The Central government has no hand in it. “It has not tried to influence the investigation process in any way. I repeat categorically in any way,” he told reporters in Parliament House on the first day of the Monsoon Session. Said the BJP: “Madhya Pradesh
