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Rise. Rot. Revival
29 Sept 2025 10:32 PM ISTRevered in the courts, dreaded by the corrupt — the CBI of old is gone. Political interference and hollowing out of insiders eroded its very soul
Poodles and Power
23 Sept 2025 11:07 PM ISTFrom vote theft in Mahadevpura to Dawood’s goons in Delhi, investigations falter when institutions bend to political pressure, leaving citizens...
Unflinching Moral Compass
28 Aug 2025 10:00 PM ISTFifty years after the Emergency, a CBI insider recalls his brushes with power and principle, as his obedience clashed with law, and his integrity...
The diarchy conundrum
10 Nov 2019 10:16 PM ISTDelhi Police’s present division of control makes the recent disruption pale in comparison
Better policing
29 Aug 2019 8:44 PM ISTIndian police requires reformative measures which must be expeditiously implemented to strengthen its functions
Corruption felled dignity
26 Aug 2019 9:28 PM ISTThe arrest of P Chidambaram is not shocking – missing integrity in public life is an infectious disease plaguing our political system
Political oversight
16 Aug 2019 8:51 PM ISTCJI’s words only affirmed what has ailed CBI for decades and what persistently calls for a change in the system to restore the agency’s integrity
Evolution of anti-corruption
13 Aug 2018 10:16 PM ISTWe have come a long way since the 1967 Prevention of Corruption Act. The punishment was then discretionary
Before the mysterious murder
18 Oct 2017 8:56 PM ISTHC judgment on Aarushi murder case has so many strictures on CBI’s working!
CBI MUST BE REINVENTED
3 March 2017 10:32 PM ISTThe fall of CBI was not swift. It was slow but sure as its political bosses sensed that the Bureau could be made to dance to their tune. Where ...
Corrupt and absolutely opaque
5 Sept 2015 4:01 AM ISTThe Raigad Police is in the news for all the wrong reasons. Why exactly? The pertinent question that has cropped up is why the Raigad Police did not...