Central Bureau of Investigation Director Ranjit Sinha retired on Tuesday
after serving a controversial two-year tenure as the chief of India's
premier investigative agency.
A panel headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet on Tuesday evening to finalise the next CBI chief.
Sinha faced severe criticism of Supreme Court over probe in coal block allocation and 2G scam earlier in November.
Sinha's
tenure at the top of CBI has seen highs like busting of some big
bribery cases involving a Railway Board member, chairman and managing
director of a public sector bank and chief executive officer of Censor
Board among others.
The lows
involved criticism he faced from the Supreme Court which asked him to
step down from 2G probe, criticism from a special court for shoddy probe
in coal block allocation cases, sharing of status report on Coalgate
with then Law Minister Ashwani Kumar after which agency received
sobriquet of "caged parrot" from the apex court.