Autonomy of the CBI ?

Is CBI, the premier investigating police agency of our country being used & manipulated for Political gains ?

This is the allegation being put on the CBI and the current government by the prime opposition parties (BJP & group)  and the social activists. The claim being that the SP & BSP are only supporting this government because the government is threatening them with CBI cases. And various cases are being downplayed and even closed for political gains. These are the claims and allegations of even the senior most leaders of the BJP.

However my question is : BJP was the ruling party from 1998-2004 and if they claim that the ruling party has undue influences over the CBI and it works according to the wimps and fancies of the ruling politicians,  then did they not see/do that during the time they were in the Government ? and even if they themselves (as they claim) didn't do anything like that but still knew that such abuse is possible then why didn't they make the CBI much more autonomous, something like the Election Commission or the Judiciary ?

And even if they have just noticed the problem now, the Agenda No. 1 in their election manifesto for the 2014 elections should be "making the CBI autonomous" ! and if not done so will only mean that they want to do the same thing they are alleging the government to be doing right now.

Fear is good !

Without going much into the details of the various corruption and other charges leveled against the big ministers, politicians and prominent people, this post refers to the 'Aura' of corruption created nowadays and its consequences.

During the past few days there have been numerous allegations against many people be it politicians, bureaucrats, social activists etc. and there have been many "media trials" going on 24*7 with people from all the involved sections defending themselves and accusing others.

I might not agree with these things being almost put to trial in the media instead of the proper judicial system, or even the fact that some people just want to gain some political points or play the politics of perception. But instead of all that i can see a merit in these.

With the sudden burst of all these corruption cases and their trials being held so openly in public domains, and with people digging out something almost out of nothing, what is being created is a 'fear' - fear of getting caught.

and this fear is good ! it is good for our society and our Nation.

With such rampant vigilance and the fear of being caught, people will refrain from getting involved in corrupt practices and quid pro quo(s).  The Right to Information act, the media and the social activists have been and will continue to play a major role in this direction.

And in a country like ours where we have huge amounts of corruption almost everywhere and public policies never actually reaching out to the target people this is the "need" of the hour.

However as our Hon. Prime Minister pointed out as well that a fine balance is required to be maintaied between RTI and personal privacy, similarly huge amount of care (proper proofs & evidences) needs to be taken before such public allegations and charges.