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10 unusual facts about Central Bureau of Investigation


Ajit Sarkar

Yadav was accused by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) of making about 640 calls from his mobile phone, many of them to prominent people.7

Kapil Dev as Indian national cricket coach

The reports of CBI (India's premier investigating agency) and K. Madhavan (appointed by BCCI to investigate match-fixing allegations) in November 2000 exonerated Kapil Dev of any involvement in match-fixing.

Mallikarjun Bande

Opposition party led by Jagadish Shettar demanded for Central Bureau of Investigation probe into this matter.Victim's wife along with huge section of public staged protests for CBI probe,however Government of Karnataka ordered for Criminal Investigation Department Karnataka to conduct a detailed probe and report the same to government.

Sariska Tiger Reserve

Soon the Rajasthan Forest Department and the Project Tiger Directorate declared an "emergency tiger census" in Sariska and the Central Bureau of Investigation, India's premier intelligence agency, conducted a probe.

Sikh Reference Library

In April 26, 2004, the Punjab and Haryana High Court ordered the Central Government, Government of Punjab, and the CBI to return the "valuables, books, scriptures, paintings, etc, that were seized from the Golden Temple during “Operation Bluestar” in 1984".

By using witness accounts, the SGPC has alleged that material from the library was taken in gunny sacks on military truck to Amritsar's Youth Club, a temporary office of the Central Bureau of Investigation, and the empty library was burned by the army afterwards.

Since 1988, the SGPC has written to the Central Government asking for the return of the material taken by the CBI but has only received minor office files.

On May 23, 2000 George Fernandes wrote to the SGPC Secretary, Gurbachan Singh Bachan, and acknowledged that the Indian Army had taken taken the books and other documents from the Sikh Reference Library and handed them over to the CBI.

In 2003, Ranjit Nanda, a former inspector for the CBI, turned whistleblower and revealed he was part of a five member team which scrutinized the documents at the CBI's makeshift office at Amritsar's Youth Club.

Zahur Haider Zaidi

The book was launched on 2 May 2009 by Ashwini Kumar former Director of the Central Bureau of Investigation in New Delhi and by Saeed Naqvi eminent journalist in Lucknow on 4 May 2009.


Jagratha

This film is the second in the series of the CBI investigative thrillers featuring Mammootty as CBI officer Sethurama Iyer.

Karam Chand Jain

Rai Sahib Karam Chand Jain was the first Legal Advisor of the War & Supply Department of India and Special Police Establishment (SPE), which later developed into the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

Moni Kumar Subba

In 2007, the Central Bureau of Investigation told the Supreme Court of India that Subba's nationality was in doubt, and that existing citizenship proofs were forged.

Purushottam Naresh Dwivedi

In September 12, 2011, unhappy with the state's handling of the case, the Supreme Court of India ordered the investigations to be handed over to the Central Bureau of Investigation.

Ramkrishnan Suryabhan Gavai

On 7 June 2009, Gavai gave the Central Bureau of Investigation the permission to prosecute CPI(M) Kerala State Secretary and former Kerala Electricity Minister Pinarayi Vijayan in the SNC-Lavalin case.

Uninor

Due to the controversy of the 2G license allocation case, Unitech Ltd.'s Managing Director Sanjay Chandra together with the company Unitech Wireless, have come under investigation by the Indian Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

V. Dinesh Reddy

The CBI is investigating Dinesh Reddy for allegations of disproportionate assets as per the instructions of the Supreme Court.

Vineet Narain

His exposure of the 1990s Jain Hawala scandal led him to use a public interest petition to apply pressure on the Central Bureau of Investigation.