CJI pulls up CBI for failing to meet standards of judicial scrutiny

The CJI highlighted at least five issues - legal ambiguity, weak human resources, lack of adequate investment, accountability, and political interference - that were ailing the premier institution

Chief Justice of India (CJI) Ranjan Gogoi has pulled up the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for its failure to meet the standards of judicial scrutiny in many high-profile and politically sensitive cases.

“The CBI is one of the few investigative agencies that have managed to carve out for itself a special place .... Unfortunately, attention is more often than not drawn to failure than success of any public institution. True, in a number of high-profile and politically sensitive cases the agency has not been able to meet the standards of judicial scrutiny,” Justice Gogoi said while delivering the D P