CBI arrests RAW Official
RAW is the powerful External Intelligence Agency of India – when you think of RAW, you think of CIA, ISI, KGB and the like. You think RAW must be busy analysing what plans Obama has for India or what kind of terrorists are planning to land up in India with what kind of weapons. But here is a senior officer of the RAW who went and got caught by CBI while accepting a bribe of one lakh rupees out of an agreed amount of Eight lakhs of rupees.
Dr. ASN Rao, a scientist with RAW of Director's rank had allegedly demanded the bribe from a Chennai-based export firm in exchange for providing it with an export licence.
While Rao, a Doctorate in Physics might not have been seriously involved in intelligence gathering, the fact that a senior RAW official has been arrested by the CBI is a blot to the High-profile RAW.
What MADAM said years ago that ‘Corruption is a global phenomenon' was just the fact of life after all.