CBI Director's Mid-Air Ouster: The Untold Story of Joginder Singh's Humiliating Transfer

• IPS officer Joginder Singh, known as 'Tiger', was the 17th CBI Director who sent Lalu Yadav to jail.
• His transfer order was issued while he was 30,000 feet in the air, returning from Paris to Delhi.
• He was informed upon landing that he was no longer CBI Director, but Special Secretary in the Ministry of Home Affairs.
• Singh defied political pressure to charge-sheet and arrest Lalu Yadav in the Fodder Scam, upsetting PM I.K. Gujral.
• He also investigated Congress President Sitaram Kesri and pursued the Bofors case, leading to his removal.