India, June 22 -- National Security Advisor Ajit Doval has also been approached to help stop 'arbitrary' transfers.

New Delhi: Some DSP rank Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officers have approached the agency Director Rishi Shukla and the National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval, seeking their intervention in what they have called "arbitrary" transfers being undertaken by some of their superiors to "silence" those officers who are speaking against the alleged extra-mural activities of a few senior officers.

This newspaper has accessed two such official letters that have been written in the recent past with the NSA and the CBI Director. The aggrieved officers are "hopeful of justice" in view of the sterling reputation of the new...