CBI would not hound honest officials

There is no question that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) must conduct a credible and fair investigation into the various corruption cases it has taken up in Andhra Pradesh, as stated by S. Nagesh Kumar in The Hindu (“Why are politicians not being investigated, IAS officials ask,” February 10, 2012). Bureaucrats in Andhra Pradesh are agitated over the recent arrest of two of their colleagues by the CBI. What I want to point out is that it gives the investigating agency no pleasure to go after its colleagues in the administrative service, and if it has taken this extreme step, it must be for good reason.

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