Central Bureau of Investigation Director Ranjit Sinha retired on Tuesday after serving a controversial two-year tenure as the chief of India’s premier investigative agency.
A panel headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet on Tuesday evening to finalise the next CBI chief.
Sinha faced severe criticism of Supreme Court over probe in coal block allocation and 2G scam earlier in November.
Sinha’s tenure at the top of CBI has seen highs like busting of some big bribery cases involving a Railway Board member, chairman and managing director of a public sector bank and chief executive officer of Censor Board among others.
The lows involved criticism he faced from the Supreme Court which asked him to step down from 2G probe, criticism from a special court for shoddy probe in coal block allocation cases, sharing of status report on Coalgate with then Law Minister Ashwani Kumar after which agency received sobriquet of “caged parrot” from the apex court.