The CBI’s name is on everyone’s lips. It is like a brand for truth and justice. Even at the panchayat level, if some major crime happens, people want it to be referred to the CBI,” stated PM Modi.
This indicates that the people do not believe in the investigation done by the local police. People have lost faith in the police in general.
He was speaking at a function of the CBI officers here at Vignan Bhavan.
The PM said that Internet banking and UPI stand in stark contrast to the earlier “phone banking” malaise, where loans worth thousands of crores of rupees were sanctioned on the basis of phone calls from influential people.
He said that the beneficiaries “scooted away with public money”, adding that the Fugitive Economic Offenders Act has so far enabled the confiscation of Rs 20,000 crores in the properties of fugitive offenders.
The PM said the corrupt would go to the extent of looting the aid given to beneficiaries of government schemes, be it rations, homes, scholarships or pensions, and the original beneficiary would feel conned every time.
“Even a Prime Minister once said that for every rupee sent out to the poor, only 15 paise reached them,” he said.This observation was made by former PM Rajiv Gandhi.
During the programme, an investiture ceremony for the recipients of the President’s Police Medal for Distinguished Service and Gold Medal for Best Investigating Officers of the CBI was held where the PM conferred the medals.
