Do you think the CBI will be able to nail and jail Amit Shah?

GN Bureau | July 27, 2010



We raise this question today because the CBI has a completely clean record in this regard—it has never nailed or jailed a politician involved in any sort of wrong doing. Lalu Prasad is roaming free and the Rs 1,000 crore fodder scam has been forgotten. Closer home, Jagdish Tytler and Sajjan Kumar, accused of involvement in the anti-Sikh riots, are roaming free too. Mayawati and Mulayam Singh are going about their business without let or hindrances despite the disproportionate assets cases pending against both of them for years now.

There have been several such cases in the past as well--the hawala case, the telecom scam, the Syed Modi murder case, the Bofors case…the list is endless.

What would inspire confidence in the CBI then? The prime minister may say that the CBI is not the Congress Bureau of Investigation, or maybe it is not even the Congress Bureau of Intimidation because it becomes a handmaiden to all political parties in power. But surely, it is neither competent nor non-pliable to inspire our confidence! 
 

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