Central Bureau of Investigation

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Kerala High court recommended to take action against CBI officer Agarwal for giving false information and editing the CD, which he received from forensic lab Bangalore . [http://www.manoramaonline.com/cgi-in/MMOnline.dll/portal/ep/malayalamContentView.do?articleType=Malayalam+Home&contentId=4462968&tabId=0&contentType=EDITORIAL&BV_ID=@@@]

CBI Academy

CBI Academy at Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India, started functioning in 1996. The Academy is situated towards east of Delhi, in Ghaziabad District of Uttar Pradesh [ [http://www.cbiacademy.gov.in/ Welcome to CBI Academy School of eLearning ] ] at a distance of around 40 km from New Delhi Railway Station and about 65 km from Indira Gandhi International Airport, Delhi. It is spread over of 26.5 acres (107,000 m²) of lush green fields and plantations with a covered area consisting of the Administrative, Academic, Hostel and Residential Blocks. Prior to that a small Training Centre was functional at Lok Nayak Bhawan, New Delhi only for conducting short term in-service courses. CBI then, was dependent on State Police Training Institutions and NPA, Hyderabad for training basic courses of Dy.SsP, SIs and constables.The Academy now caters to the training needs of all ranks of CBI. Training facilities for certain specialised courses are also made available to the officials of State Police, "Central Police Organisations" (CPO), "Vigilance organisations of public sector undertakings", banks and government departments and Indian Armed Forces.

CBI & Recent Controversies

In spite of its fame for being India's premier investigating agency, the CBI has recently come under heavy criticism for allowing itself to be debased by political influence. Management Quality Of The Leadership: The Central Bureau Of Investigation is a highly fragmented collection of Officers with a strong bias towards the Officers on deputation. It has a sizeable cadre of Officers recruited directly.This cadre of Officers is the repository of the Investigative skills that the organisation is known for. The Recruitment Rules of the organisation are so framed that no officer of this cadre can ever occupy a position of leadership or that of director of the organisation. Sh K. Madhavan, S Sen, who guided the Investigations in the Harshd Mehta and ISRO spy ring cases respectively superannuated as Joint Directors. The leadership is dominated by the IPS cadre of Officers on deputation who ensure that they retain all the senior level posts for their cadre. This vested group of Officers controls the decision making processes and frames the Rules for all the Human Resources.

Media Potrayal

Sethurama Iyer CBI is a Malayalam movie directed by K Madhu and starring Mammootty. It is the third film in a series of films starring Mammootty as Sethurama Iyer, a sharp and highly intelligent investigative officer of the CBI. The first two movies were Oru CBI Diary Kurippu (1988) and Jagratha (1989). The fourth movie in the series is Nerariyan CBI (2005).

References

Further reading

The 24th Report of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Working of CBI 2008 [http://164.100.47.5:8080/committeereports/reports/EnglishCommittees/Committee%20on%20Personnel,%20PublicGrievances,%20Law%20and%20Justice/24th%20Report%20-%20Working%20of%20CBI.htm]

External links

* [http://cbi.nic.in Official site]
* [http://www.indlawnews.com/ Latest in Indian legal news]