Track record: CBI through the years

The CBI has come under fire several times for allegedly poor investigation. The Supreme Court had in 2013 called it a "caged parrot" and "its master's voice"

A special CBI court on Thursday acquitted all the accused — including former telecom minister A Raja, Essar promoters Ravi Ruia and Anshuman Ruia and former bureaucrats — in the 2G telecom spectrum allocation case, saying the special public prosecutor “miserably failed” to prove any charges against the accused. Business Standard takes a look at a few high-profile cases in which question marks were raised by various courts over the CBI’s probe:

Aircel-Maxis 2G case

 

August 2014: CBI files chargesheet against former telecommunications minister Dayanidhi Maran and his brother Kalanithi Maran and several others for