Arun Jaitley calls CBI’s FIR against Chanda Kochhar ‘adventurism and megalomania’ 

Arun Jaitley.

A day after the CBI booked former ICICI Bank CEO Chanda Kochhar and named other senior bankers in a fraud case, Union minister Arun Jaitley, on Friday, suggested the investigating agency to avoid “adventurism” and concentrate only on the “bull’s eye”.

Jaitley, who is currently in the United States for cancer treatment, in Facebook post and a series of tweets, said one of the reasons for “poor” conviction rate in India is that “adventurism and megalomania” overtakes investigators and professionalism takes a back seat.

Professional investigation targets the guilty & protects the innocent. It secures convictions and furthers public interest. One of the reasons why our conviction rates are poor is that adventurism and megalomania overtakes our investigators and professionalism takes a back seat.

— Arun Jaitley (@arunjaitley) January 25, 2019

Jaitley said: “There is a fundamental difference between investigative adventurism and professional investigation.”

Jaitley, who due to his health issue had to transfer his duties to Piyush Goyal for the time being, advised the investigators: “Follow the advice of Arjun in the Mahabharat Just concentrate on the bull’s eye.”

The CBI, on Thursday, filed a case of criminal conspiracy and fraud against the Chanda Kochhar and her husband Deepak Kochhar. Sudhanshu Dhar Mishra, who worked in the New Delhi unit of the agency’s bank security and frauds cell, registered the com plaint in the ICICI-Videocon loan controversy case on January 22.

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