Ordinance extending terms of agencies' chiefs may produce desired results

The number of years these officers will be in power will make them effectively senior to all the others occupying corner rooms in all the other agencies

Imagine a cricket team where every member is designated a captain. It is not hard to figure out the result. Or imagine a mountaineering team in which every member has the right to decide to stop or begin a climb. These examples are useful to understand how the relations among India’s national investigation teams have shaped up in recent years. Of the 15-odd national investigation agencies at the Centre, there has been a rank creep. The heads of most of them hold the same rank, that of special secretary to the Government of India. 

In this context, the Centre’s November 15