Most people don’t know this — the CBI was actually born during British rule. Back in the 1940s, World War II had created massive corruption inside India’s War and Supply Department. The scams grew so big that the normal administration couldn’t control them. To fix this, in 1941 the British set up the Special Police Establishment (SPE). After Independence, India kept the SPE, and by the 1960s it was clear the country needed a central agency that could handle corruption, economic crimes, frauds, a