What the court said is correct: CBI chief Ranjit Sinha

What the court said is correct: CBI chief Ranjit Sinha
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After scathing comments from the Supreme Court, CBI chiefA Ranjit Sinha accepted the Supreme Court's observation that the country's premier...

After scathing comments from the Supreme Court, CBI chiefA Ranjit Sinha accepted the Supreme Court's observation that the country's premier investigating agency was a "caged parrot" that "speaks in its master's voice". Commenting on the Apex Court's caged parrotA remark, Sinha said: "Whatever Supreme CourtA said is correct." (Read: What the Supreme Court said)
Ranjit Sinha However, Congress leader Digvijaya Singh defended the government and said that it is just a comment by the court and it was not an order. He also added that the government had done nothing wrong. "It is a comment by the court and not an order. If it was a written order, then we would have reacted to it. The government has done nothing wrong... The investigation has not been affected and there was no intervention in the investigation," Digvijaya Singh told reporters. Sinha's submitted a second affidavit in the coal scam on Wednesday that reported that law minister Ashwani Kumar and secretaries of the Prime Minister's Office and the coal ministry had made certain changes in the report on the allocation of coal blocks. The court then made the observation that the heart of the report had been changed. The bench also asked the government whether it was contemplating a law to make the CBI independent and insulate it from extraneous intrusion and interferences. It also made it clear that choice was with the government and in case government dithered, the court would step in.
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