Arrests of major figures dominated 2016

CBI remained in news in 2016 for some of the big arrests it made — of ex-IAF chief S P Tyagi, Arvind Kejriwal’s then Principal Secretary and judge Rachna Lakhanpal — though it also had to do some firefighting over the apprehension of a senior bureaucrat who along with his family members committed suicide later alleging torture by it.

2016 was also supposed to be a year of leadership change but it did not happen with speculation doing the rounds that the government wanted to avoid selection of CBI chief during the tenure of Chief Justice T S Thakur, whose term came to an end today.

The federal agency hogged media headlines with the surprise arrest of S P Tyagi in the AgustaWestland helicopter purchase scam.