Ranjit Sinha, Former CBI Chief, Dies At 68

Ranjit Sinha, 68, was a Bihar cadre IPS (Indian Police Service) officer of the 1974 batch.

Ranjit Sinha, a former CBI chief who presided over some of the most controversial years of the investigating agency, died early today. He had tested positive for Covid yesterday. Ranjit Sinha, 68, was a Bihar cadre IPS (Indian Police Service) officer of the 1974 batch. Mr Sinha headed the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) force, the Railway Protection Force and served at senior positions in the Central Bureau of Investigation in Patna and Delhi before his appointment as CBI chief in 2012. Mr Sinha was in charge of the CBI in 2013, when the Supreme Court famously described the agency as a "caged parrot that speaks in its master's voice".