Meanwhile, the revenue secretary and the Central Board of Direct Taxes have rejected the request from Ranjit Sinha, director, Central Bureau of Investigation, for the transcript of BBMs his predecessor AP Singh exchanged with a, well, person of interest.

Sinha, in fact, carefully drafted a two-page letter to seek the transcript, as a case against the other person was also being pursued by the CBI.  

However, a brief, one-line reply was sent to Sinha by a deputy secretary in the revenue department turning down his request.

After all, babudom understands its internal politics like no one else, so the present CBI directors attempt to know more about his predecessor was nipped in the bud itself.