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Book Review - Who Owns CBI : The Naked Truth By B. R. Lall





Who Owns Cbi: The Naked Truth is a disclosure by B.R.Lall, former joint director of CBI has raised a Question mark on the credibility of CBI.

This novel entails the working of CBI and give a deep first hand insight about corruptions in CBI through his personal experiences as Joint Director, CBI and concludes the book by giving suggestions for improving this system rotten with political powered rodents and making system of investigations through agencies like CBI, a robust one. He starts off with the famous Hawala Case and writes about his findings (supplemented by evidences) and proceedings in courts. But when he find out that powerful politicians like PM NR Rao and LK Advani have also washed off their hands in this cobweb and reports the same to his seniors, he receives rebuke, criticism and suppression from Director, CBI.
Finally, he was transferred off the case and finally thrown out of CBI. He also provides examples of other high profile cases in which he or his colleagues were involved received warnings from senior officials for raising fingers on people at high places. He gives various exemplary to show the dominance of powerful people, and their reach extends to the final outcome of investigations of CBI, and he prominently points out that it is impossible to drag these highly placed people in courts as criminals.
So he suggests several changes to the system of elections and investigation agencies. He cites examples of different countries to show their system of investigations. He does not deny that corruption is not present in other countries, but he advocates a system combining all those systems from across all countries where that the system had been successful and achieved feats.He shows a way out of this politicians dominant nation to actual representative democracy rather than a nominal democracy.

So, there had been a lot of debate on the functioning of CBI and control over CBI. After lots of efforts and movement led by Anna Hazare, prosecution wing moves under Lokpal, according to 'The Lokpal Bill, 2013. Under Lokpal Bill, 2013 when investigating corruption cases, the CBI works under the Lokpal. Investigation of the Prime Minister, Ministers, MPs and judges of the Supreme Court or High Courts require the permission of a 7-member bench of the Lokpal. This came from the issue that complete control of Lokpal over CBI is a problem too because this would lead to too much of centralisation of power in one institution and again it questions on the autonomous characteristic of CBI. Although full control not only seclude CBI from Government Interference but also leads to honest and fair investigation.

Under these amendments, it will be interesting to see how things works now and how much the cases will be stimulated by the Government officials? But at least it is prone to some accountability now, and we can hope for the another considerable writing like this one by B.R. Lall to splash some other loopholes and defaulters in the agency.

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