New Delhi, April 16 (TIWN) Former Director of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Ranjit Sinha passed away on Friday morning, sources said.

He had tested positive for Covid-19 on Thursday night, PTI reported.  Sinha, an 1974-batch IPS officer of the Bihar cadre, was the CBI director between 2012 and 2014.  He had also headed the Railway Protection Force and served at senior positions in the Central Bureau of Investigation in Patna and Delhi before his appointment as CBI chief.  Sinha's tenure was easily the most tumultuous of a CBI director in recent years. He landed in one controversy after another in 2014.