Wish granted, CBI chief refrains from comment

NEW DELHI: CBI director Ranjit Sinha remained tight-lipped on Monday, hours after the Supreme Court asked Centre for Public Interest Litigation (CPIL), an NGO, to reveal the name of the ‘whistleblower’ who had leaked the visitors’ register at his residence.
In his plea before the apex court, Sinha had sought that CPIL’s Prashan Bhushan be asked to reveal the name.But asked about the court’s order, the CBI chief, merely said, “I don’t want to comment on anything.”
The agency chief had ordered an internal probe to find out the person(s) who had leaked the register to Bhushan.
Known for his headline grabbing quotes, Sinha has suddenly gone silent on the allegations that he met persons, named in CBI cases, at his official 2 Janpath residence.
The agency had first reacted to the leak of visitors' entry register saying there was no such register. Later, Sinha said the revelations about his visitors’ to his residence amounted to violation of his right to privacy. Afterwards, he had admitted to meeting some people at his residence adopting the policy “to catch a thief one must set a thief on him”.
The CBI chief said he didn’t favour any company or individual. Sinha had suspected the leak of the visitors' register to be an insider's hatchet job to lower his and the premier investigating agency's reputation.
During last hearing, Supreme Court had termed allegations against Sinha as grave and serious after which he filed his response and asked for the whistleblower’s name.