The government of India has always maintained that the Central Bureau of Investigation ( CBI ) an elite force which plays a major role in preservation of values in public life and in ensuring the health of the national economy was a free and independent agency and there was no interference from the government in its functioning. These tall claims of no interference from the government came in for a rude shock in the recent developments in the investigations in the Coalgate scam which are being carried out under direct supervision of the supreme court of India. Strangely enough the CBI instead of reporting directly to the supreme court chose or was forced to choose the path of getting its observations vetted or approved by the executive including legislative executive under shoddy pretexts of putting in dots and commas at the right places and legal advice. Two major lacunae in the whole set up of CBI come to a normal person's mind.
- Does the CBI lack such competence
- Can we ever have an organisation wedded to its glorious motto of Industry, Impartiality, Integrity particularly when money irrespective of its colour has gained so much prominence in India's social as well as political process.
With many legal masters and innumerable illegal ones in the shape of power centres in the bureaucracy and polity, expecting CBI to be free, fearless and impartial is expecting a little too much. Like all other government organs the CBI is also overburdened and its priorities depend on the whims and fancies of the ruling class. It is not for nothing that a parliament with fractured mandate, throws about strange bedfellows from time to time for ruling the country ( particularly during crisis ) and CBI seems to have emerged as the most potent tool in the art of governing/ruling the country.
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