Singh, who is demitting office on Friday, was responding to a question whether some high-profile people could not be made accused in the 2G allocation case. Responding to questions about political interference in the working of CBI, Singh said there was absolutely no political interference in the investigations under CBI.
"In any investigation, we are only answerable to the trial court. Nobody can give us any directions. Only cases where the Supreme Court or the High Court is monitoring, we are under pressure, but no political person can tell the agency what needs to be done," he told PTI.
The director said people are totally free to investigate and come to their own conclusions. "The CBI is totally insulated from political interference. Our officers work absolutely free and impartially. I can give examples even in 2G and in so many cases, there have been so many difference of opinions."
"And the difference of opinion arises because everybody writes what he feels. Otherwise you will never have difference of opinion. It will be always what the director decides," he said.
About the organisational challenges faced by the agency during his tenure, Singh said lack of state-of the art forensic laboratory remains a major lacunae in the agency."You need to have state-of-the-art forensic laboratory. We are very weak. In the Bhanwari Devi case, we had to send the bones to FBI. Then there are so many issues like LR, shortage of manpower. When I joined it was 20 per cent now its 12 percent but still needs (attention)," he said.
Singh said he never really got a chance to look into organisational matters because from day-one he was busy with the probe in scams. "There have been lot of challenges, the CBI needs to be made into multi-disciplinary agency. You need to attract people from other agencies and expertise,there has to be change in the structuring of CBI," he said.
On the coal block allocations which was another major scam which was investigated by the agency during his tenure, Singh said the progress was slow because of the lack of sufficient manpower to handle probes in the scam which is spread across three ministries and 142 companies.
"It is in process of verification. About 142 companies will be probed in the first phase and another 50 companies in the second phase. All documents need to be collected. There are three ministries involved and various state-governments involved. It's a mammoth task. We have not been able to given them enough manpower to do it. So it will take time, but things will happen," Singh said.
About the criticism of CBI turning into IPS-driven organisation, Singh refused to comment saying the agency was following existing government policy.
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