Chidambaram was speaking at an interaction session after delivering his key-note address at the CBI Golden Jubilee function here.

He said maintenance of public order, which would include prevention, detection and prosecution of offences, is the domain of the executive.

CBI is likely to press before the SC that its demand for autonomy is legitimate and will pave the way for curbing interference in its funct...

SC took up the issue of CBI autonomy amid a controversy over a former law minister and coal and PMO officials vetting the CBI’s status repo...

The Cabinet has cleared the proposal that we had made for the amendments to the Delhi Special Police Establishment Act, 1946.

CBI had also demanded scrapping of Section 6A in DPSE under which prior sanction is needed to start probe against a joint secretary and abo...

The affidavit suggested a three-month limit for sanctions sought for prosecution. Any order declining such request shall contain supporting...

BJP alleged the government is not serious about granting autonomy to the probe agency and continues to misuse it for its political gains.

The Cabinet on Thursday accepted the recommendation of a ministerial group to enhance the Central Bureau of Investigation’s autonomy by set...

Group of Ministers headed by Finance Minister P Chidambaram discussed ways to give greater autonomy and more financial powers to CBI.

The officers, in their petition, have questioned the govt for setting up of the GoM and not implementing the recommendations in parl panel ...

Autonomy for the CBI is a big issue facing the government, which has just set up a group of ministers to find some answers.

BJP today dubbed as an eyewash the setting up of a Group of Ministers to draft a new bill to insulate the CBI from political interference.

Manmohan Singh has given five of his Ministers just three weeks to come up with an appropriate law to give independence to the CBI.

Over the years, successive govts have been accused of treating the CBI as a handmaiden, interfering with its functioning and using it to se...

The pain of stinging criticism from the apex court regarding coal scam probe also carries the balm of freedom and functional autonomy for C...

'The underlying theme in both the draft Lokpal bills is to confer more autonomy on the investigation agency so as to insulate it from inter...