CBI: The Caged Tiger?

India’s premier investigating agency vs the challenge of Executive interference.

Analyze the main institutional and autonomy issues plaguing the CBI.	- Legal Basis: still governed by the pre-independence DSPE Act 1946. - General Consent: withdrawal of consent by various states (Federal tension). - Selection: high-power committee (PM, LoP, CJI) but operational dependency on DoPT.
Summarize the way forward for reinforcing CBI's institutional independence.	- Success lies in moving from "Suspicion" to "Accountability-Saturated & Independence-Verified Agency Saturation."