Former Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) director Ranjit Sinha passed away on Friday morning in Delhi. He was 68.
He had tested positive for Covid-19 on Thursday night, PTI reported.
Sinha, an 1974-batch IPS officer of the Bihar cadre, was the CBI director between 2012 and 2014.
He had also headed 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.
Sinha’s tenure was easily the most tumultuous of a CBI director in recent years.
The coal allocation scam, or ‘Coalgate’ had engulfed the UPA government in 2012 after the CAG accused the government of allocating 194 coal blocks to in a flawed manner between 2004 and 2009.
(With inputs from PTI)
