The Central Bureau of Investigation has launched a drive to get rid of "unwanted files", as part of which the agency's various zonal offices have disposed of more than 12,000 documents till date.

CBI director Ranjit Sinha asked his officers a few months ago to clean up the agency's "malkhana" (record rooms). Malkhana is the place where the CBI keeps all the documents its finds during a search.

Every zone has its own malkhana. Cleaning up the malkhanas was one of the agency's "focus areas" said a note sent by Sinha to the HoZs (heads of zones). According to the note, "urgent attention and concerted effort is required over the next three months, by the HoZs in their respective jurisdiction".

Subsequently, the HoZs were asked to complete the inspection and physical verification of all "case properties" (documents) in the malkhana by February 2014 so that "unnecessary" documents could be got rid of.

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