The Central Bureau of Investigation has registered an FIR against his former director Ranjit Sinha on Tuesday. Ranjit Sinha is accused of influencing the investigation of the coal scam during his tenure.

This is the second time in CBI history when former CBI director is facing criminal charges imposed by his own investigating agency.

In February this year, the CBI filed an FIR against former director AP Singh. He was accused of helping meat exporter Moin Qureshi, the accused of money laundering.
 
The Supreme Court had entrusted CBI Special Director ML Sharma to investigate the matter. Ranjit Sinha was the CBI director from 2012 to 2014 and during this time he met the accused in the coal scam, which included some politicians and some businessmen. This meeting was held at Ranjit Sinha's official residence.
 
In July 2015, the Supreme Court had entrusted the investigation to ML Sharma against Ranjit Sinha on the complaint of lawyer Prashant Bhushan. During the hearing of this case, Prashant Bhushan presented a Visitors Diary in the court.

Sources said that after ordering the court inquiry Ranjit Sinha reached the CBI Headquarters in the last week of March. For interrogation of Ranjit Sinha, the officers of the Joint Director level officer and an SP level officer of the CBI's Special Investigation Team (SIT) were involved in the investigation.

The Supreme Court had ordered an inquiry against Ranjit Sinha on January 23 this year and had instructed to constitute SIT. Not only this, the Supreme Court had ordered Alok Verma to include his favorite officers in the investigation.

Official sources said that AK Sharma is the joint director of CBI at the time. He is monitoring daily investigations in this matter.

In this matter, Ranjit Sinha said that the Supreme Court has ordered an inquiry and I can not say anything in this matter. He said that he respected the court, so no one can react in this matter.
 
ML Sharma's committee formed by the Supreme Court had found in the investigation that at first glance, it seems that Ranjit Sinha had tried to influence the investigations of coal mine allocation cases. He also met the accused many times at his residence.

The ML Sharma Committee dubbed the Visitors' Diary of Ranjit Sinha's official residence as correct. It was said in the report that it is possible from these interventions that Ranjit Sinha has tried to influence the investigation work.

The Supreme Court cited his order on May 14, 2015, instructing to investigate the allegation of misuse of the post held on Ranjit Sinha. In this order, the court had said that in the absence of the investigating officer or the investigating team, the meeting of Ranjit Sinha with the accused of the coal block allocation case is totally inappropriate. The Supreme Court had asked ML Sharma to investigate the conduct of Ranjit Sinha in the order of May 14, 2015.

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