How CBI went from being a caged parrot to a wild vulture

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India’s premier anti-corruption agency has defied two decades of reform and become an embarrassment with its bosses calling each other thief.

A 'Special 26' like drama is playing out in real life, and mostly inside the honourable Supreme Court. There are two groups led by the number one and two in the CBI, each claiming to be the “asli waale” and calling the other thieves. In this confusing dog’s breakfast are other ingredients: A government which seems to prefer one side, and a Chief Vigilance Commissioner (CVC) who’d rather not take a call because he also has a retired judge sitting on top of him. Everybody, in turn, is under the glare of India’s most formidable activists and lawyers.

Because nobody trusts anybody, everybody is being watched by somebody. So, what do we do?

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