CBI not independent... should not come under Lokpal: Justice Verma

Even as the UPA government betrays its nervousness in completely unshackling the CBI, the judge who authored the landmark judgment of the Supreme Court that called for making CBI independent of pressures from political masters on Monday asserted that the CBI was “anything but independent”. “Most certainly not. The CBI is anything but independent,” was former Chief Justice of India J S Verma’s response when asked if 14 years after the judgment delivered by his Bench in the Vineet Narain case CBI had been made independent.

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