CBI solved 800 cases despite COVID-19 pandemic: Director

Despite the Covid19 pandemic hitting the country and imposition of the nationwide lockdown for several months the Central Bureau of Investigation CBI managed to solve 800 casesAddressing the CBI officers through video conference agency Director Rishi Kumar Shukla said Covid19 related lockdown came as a challenge In spite of the best efforts taken the CBI family lost a few officers and menA large number of cases numbering around 800 were disposed off during the year gone by 2020 despite the huge challenges of Covid19 pandemic which caused tremendous hurdles in the operations in various walks of life he saidWith your cooperation and efforts we have been able to finalise the investigation of a substantial number of cases to achieve our targets We need to work hard in the coming days the CBI Director saidHe also complimented the investigating officers and the supervisory officers in exhibiting the true nature of team CBI towards relentlessly pursuing cases He cited the example of a recently adjudicated case in Kerala in which conviction was pronounced despite the severely hampered and complicated case handed over to the CBIShukla also emphasised the need for officers and others at various levels to keep themselves updated with the latest tools of investigation through sustained trainingHe pointed out that new and well innovated online or virtual training modules are now available or developed as a fallout of restrictions due to the Covid pandemicShukla underscored the need for supervisory officers to involve themselves in live investigation cases more frequently as a New Year resolutionThis will help them to have firsthand experience of some of the present investigation methods and can further guide their teams to strengthen or further improve investigation with an objective of accelerating the process the Director saidShukla conveyed his condolences to the family members of those officers who died due to Covid and assured them of all possible assistance He stressed the need to continuously adhere to the Covid protocols as the pandemic is still ragingWe should continue with periodic sanitization of our workplace and frequent testing he saidThe Director also highlighted the welfare activities and said efforts were made to fill up the existing vacancies hold maximum DPCs whereby a number of officials were promotedHe recognised the services rendered by the officers while getting various prestigious awards including IPMPPMUSMAUSMHome Ministers Medal and Asuchana Padak etcThe Director complimented the officers of the agency for professional work and for progressively achieving better results especially during the last two yearsRecently a large number of high value bank fraud cases have been taken up which marks an emerging challenge to the CBI he addedThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever