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THE INSIDE STORY OF HOW THE PREMIER INVESTIGATING AGENCY WAS ROCKED BY A CORRUPTION SCANDAL AND A DESTRUCTIVE TURF WAR. CAN IT RECOVER? AND WILL THE BLOWBACK SINGE THE GOVERNMENT? EXCLUSIVE MULTIMEDIA CONTENT ONLY FOR IPAD AYODHYA THE MANDIR MOMENTUM BOOK REVIEW BLIGHTLY ON OUR LAND COVER STORY WHAT A MESS BIG STORY BLOOD ON THE TRACKS #CBIWar SUBSCRIBE NOW www.indiatoday.in/digitalmagazines FROM THE www.indiatoday.in EDITOR-IN-CHIEF EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: Aroon Purie GROUP EDITORIAL DIRECTOR: Raj Chengappa heCBI’sinitialshavelongbeenthe tampering with evidence and worse. GROUP CREATIVE EDITOR: Nilanjan Das; GROUP PHOTO EDITOR: Bandeep Singh butt of alternative interpretati- Our cover story this week, by Deputy MANAGING EDITORS: Kai Jabir Friese, Rajesh Jha CONSULTING EDITOR: Ajit Kumar Jha (Research) on—from Narendra Modi’s 2013 Editor Uday Mahurkar, digs deep into the EXECUTIVE EDITORS: Damayanti Datta, S. Sahaya Ranjit, Facebook quip ‘Congress Bureau roots of this highly avoidable confrontation UMBAI: T Sandeep Unnithan, M M.G. Arun DEPUTY EDITORS: Prachi Bhuchar, Uday Mahurkar, Manisha Saroop of Investigation’ to Rahul Gandhi’s recent and reveals multiple players pulling strings HYDERABAD: Amarnath K. Menon CHANDIGARH: Asit Jolly tweet ‘Captive Bureau of Investigation’. The from behind the scenes. It’s a classic case of SENIOR EDITORS: Shweta Punj, Sasi Nair, Alokparna Das JAIPUR: Rohit Parihar punchline is really the same: that India’s a political and bureaucratic tug of war, but SENIOR ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Kaushik Deka, Ashish Mukherjee most powerful and constitutionally inde- the charges being traded are too serious MUMBAI: Suhani Singh, Kiran Dinkar Tare; PATNA: Amitabh Srivastava ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Shougat Dasgupta, Chinki Sinha pendent investigative agency is ultimately a to be dismissed as mere one-upmanship. KOLKATA: Romita Sengupta; BHOPAL: Rahul Noronha; THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Jeemon Jacob; BEIJING: Ananth Krishnan tool of the government of the day. In his letters to the Cabinet Secretary ASSISTANT EDITOR: PUNE: Aditi S. Pai In 2013, an irate Supreme Court judge and the Central Vigilance Commission PHOTO DEPARTMENT: Vikram Sharma (Deputy Photo Editor), Rajwant Singh Rawat, Yasir Iqbal (Principal Photographers), famously called the elite agency a “caged (CVC), Asthana listed 10 cases of alleged Chandra Deep Kumar (Senior Photographer); MUMBAI: Mandar Suresh parrot” for its shoddy inquiry into alleged irregularities against his boss, Verma, Deodhar (Chief Photographer), Danesh Adil Jassawala (Photographer); KOLKATA: Subir Halder (Principal Photographer); irregularities in the allocation of coalfield while the CBI, under Verma, has accused CHENNAI: N.G. Jaison (Senior Photographer) PHOTO RESEARCHERS: Prabhakar Tiwari (Chief Photo Researcher), licences. Four years later, more ignominy Asthana of accepting a Rs 3 crore bribe. Saloni Vaid (Principal Photo Researcher), followed when the CBI booked two of its The widespread perception that Asthana, Shubhrojit Brahma (Senior Photo Researcher) CHIEF OF GRAPHICS: Tanmoy Chakraborty former directors on charges of corruption. a Gujarat cadre IPS oicer, was brought to ART DEPARTMENT: Sanjay Piplani (Senior Art Director); But if we thought that was the nadir, the agency at the behest of Prime Minister Angshuman De (Art Director); Devajit Bora (Deputy Art Director); Vikas Verma (Associate Art Director); developments over the past year culmina- Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Bhoomesh Dutt Sharma (Senior Designer) Siddhant Jumde (Senior Illustrator) ting in a flashpoint last week proved Shah makes the recent developments all PRODUCTION DEPARTMENT: Harish Agarwal (Chief of Production), how mistakenly optimistic we were. The the more intriguing. Naveen Gupta (Chief Coordinator), Vijay Kumar Sharma (Senior Coordinator) director of CBI, Alok Kumar Verma, and The prime minister cannot entirely PUBLISHING DIRECTOR: Manoj Sharma his deputy, Rakesh Asthana, were asked escape responsibility for this unsavoury ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER: Anil Fernandes (Impact) to proceed on leave following charges and episode, as he had more than fair warning IMPACT TEAM Senior General Manager: Jitender Lad (West) counter-charges of corruption. The un- about the impending clash. But for reasons General Manager: Mayur Rastogi (North), precedented and ugly feud between them best known to him, he chose to look away. Upendra Singh (Bangalore), Kaushiky Gangulie (East) reiterates a dark truth often whisp e red in The government, on the recommendation GROUP CHIEF MARKETING OFFICER: Vivek Malhotra of the CVC, an institution entrusted by the Assistant General Manager: Garima Prashar (Marketing) informal convers ations: that the CBI’s be- SALES AND OPERATIONS: D.V.S. Rama Rao, Chief General Manager come a playground of its political masters. Supreme Court to monitor the CBI’s func- Deepak Bhatt, General Manager (National Sales) Vipin Bagga, Deputy General Manager (Operations) The Central Bureau of Investigation tions, took action against the two oicers, Rajeev Gandhi, Regional Sales Manager (North) was set up in 1963 to probe serious cases but it was too little too late. The incident of corruption and economic ofences. had blown the lid of the CBI to reveal the Gradually, several high-profile cases of con- snake pit inside. Despite its chequered past, ventional crimes such as murder and rape the CBI was still regarded as the last resort also landed at the agency’s doorstep, mostly for investigation in the country. The current because state police forces bungled with snafu has severely damaged its reputation. Volume XLIII Number 45; For the week routine investigation. Placed directly under However, the game is not over yet. 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