INX Media case: 71 retired bureaucrats write to PM Modi, express concern over prosecution of four officials

Seventy-one former bureaucrats have written an open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressing concern over the prosecution of four retired officers of Finance Ministry in the INX Media case, asserting that it was done in a bid to gain "narrow political advantages.""We write to you to express the deep concern of our group of former civil servants at the selective targeting of retired and serving officers, apparently for gaining narrow political advantages," the letter, signed by top former civil servants including former National Security Advisor Shivshankar Menon, Cabinet Secretary K M Chandrasekhar, Finance Secretaries Sunil Mitra and Narendra Sisodia and others, stated.The letter, dated October 4, was written a month after the Central government issued sanction to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to prosecute them in connection with the Foreign Investment Promotion Board's (FIPB) clearance granted to the INX Media in 2007.These retired bureaucrats have claimed that .