Former CBI Director, Ranjit Sinha, Dies at 68. He Was Covid-19 Positive

New Delhi, 16 April: Ranjit Sinha, a former CBI director died early today. He had tested positive for Covid yesterday

Ranjit Sinha, 68, was a Bihar cadre IPS (Indian Police Service) officer of the 1974 batch.

Ranjit Sinha, presided over some of the most controversial years of the investigating agency, headed the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) force, the Railway Protection Force and served at senior positions in the Central Bureau of Investigation in Patna and Delhi before his appointment as CBI chief in 2012.

Later, up on Supreme Court’s direction, the CBI registered a case against its own former chief Ranjit Sinha in 2017 to investigate his alleged meetings at home with the accused in coal scam case. He was investigated for allegedly misusing his power to stymie an inquiry into a corruption case involving bribe-giving in the allocation of coal fields to private firms.

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