Don't cast net too wide: Jaitley on CBI's handling of ICICI Bank case

CBI has named former ICICI Bank MD & CEO Chanda Kochhar, her husband Deepak Kochhar, Videocon Group promoter Venugopal Dhoot as accused in the ICICI-Videocon loan case

Union minister Arun Jaitley on Friday questioned the Central Bureau of Investigation’s (CBI’s) approach to the ICICI Bank-Videocon loan case, and said that including too many bankers in the first information report (FIR) could hurt the interests of the banking industry. He said there should be a fundamental difference between “investigative adventurism” and “professional investigation”. “If we include the entire who’s who of the banking industry — with or without evidence — what cause are we serving or actually hurting,” Jaitley said in a blog on Facebook on Friday night.  
 
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