33 Facts About Ranjit Sinha

Ranjit Sinha was an Indian police officer and was the former director of the Central Bureau of Investigation.

Ranjit Sinha was the director general of police of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police and the director general of the Railway Protection Force before joining as the CBI director in December 2012 for a two-year tenure.

Ranjit Sinha has served in senior positions in the CBI in Patna and Delhi.

Ranjit Sinha had earlier held positions in CBI including the post of joint director and deputy inspector general.

Ranjit Sinha has been associated with the investigations of a number of sensitive and important cases of national and international ramifications.

Ranjit Sinha was selected based on the procedure laid down by CVC Act 2003 and had a tenure of two years.

Ranjit Sinha was selected by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet.

When his appointment was announced, the Bharatiya Janata Party questioned the manner in which Ranjit Sinha was appointed to head the Central Bureau of Investigation by the Indian National Congress-led government.

Ranjit Sinha was one among four children with the eldest sister Sarojini Sinha married to 1968 batch Indian Revenue Service officer P K Sinha.

Ranjit Sinha trained to be a geologist receiving a Master's in Science degree in Geology from the Patna University and later received a Master's Diploma in Public Administration.

Ranjit Sinha has two brothers - Anand Sinha who worked as a senior management official with Tata Steel and the youngest Anjani Sinha.

Ranjit Sinha joined the Bihar cadre of the Indian Police Service when he was 21 years old.

Ranjit Sinha started his career with the police forces in Ranchi, Madhubani and Saharsa districts of Bihar where he became the superintendent of police.

Ranjit Sinha was involved in counter terror operations as the Inspector General in the Kashmir Valley when the bus service between India and Pakistan was started in 2005, and the additional director-general of the Indo-Tibetan Border Force.

Ranjit Sinha worked as the director general of the Railway Protection Force from 14 November 2008 to 19 May 2011, where he set up commando units, bomb disposal squads, quick reaction teams to protect railway stations from terror strikes after the 2008 Mumbai attacks.

Ranjit Sinha had earlier served in the CBI for 11 years before being appointed its director.

Ranjit Sinha was awarded the Police Medal for Meritorious Service in 1991 and the President's Police Medal for Distinguished Service in 1997.

The court indicted the CBI and ordered that Ranjit Sinha be removed from the case.

Ranjit Sinha was then posted to Bihar Bhawan in New Delhi against a specially created post by Lalu Yadav.

Banerjee did not take to these objections kindly and got Ranjit Sinha replaced as the RPF head in May 2011.

Ranjit Sinha was posted in September 2011 as the director general of the ITBP.

Ranjit Sinha has confirmed the comments of the Supreme Court as being correct.

Ranjit Sinha appreciated the court's order and stated that he had become a "catalyst of sorts" in making CBI autonomous.

Ranjit Sinha said that it is a lifetime opportunity for him to try to improve the working of the CBI.

However, it was reported that Ranjit Sinha had held a grudge against Mahesh Kumar, and ordered his phone to be tapped that led to the case being busted.

Ranjit Sinha appreciated the work by his sleuths stating that they just had the slightest of leads and were able to crack the case.

Later, Ranjit Sinha declared that there was no evidence linking the minister to the scam, which was protested against by the BJP.

The railway police association accused Ranjit Sinha of having a grudge against all railway officials who had complained against him to the Central Vigilance Commission regarding his corrupt ways when he was the director general of the Railway Protection Force.

Ranjit Sinha was seen to be close to Lalu Prasad Yadav, the Rashtriya Janata Dal supremo, who kept the post of the director general of the Railway Protection Force unfilled for three months till Sinha was appointed to the post.

Ranjit Sinha accepted that he was friends with Yadav, stating that Lalu was his boss both in the state of Bihar and the Indian Railways and hence, they have good interpersonal relations.

Ranjit Sinha was married to Reena, daughter of IPS officer, Gajendra Narain.

Ranjit Sinha had one daughter and one son; his daughter is married to Awanish Sharan, an Indian Administrative Service officer, Chhattisgarh cadre, and his son is in Delhi after pursuing law in the Netherlands.

Ranjit Sinha died on 16 April 2021 in Delhi, at the age of 68.