With things seemingly reaching the final phase, it is worthwhile to recall that the top cops had asked the State Government to recommend a CBI probe into the case involving the reputation of the lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (lBSNAA). They sounded doubtful as to whether the police would crack the case with IAS officers being under the lens of the probe. But the State Government rejected the plea, stating that the State police were competent enough to probe it. This aside, the heads of the team constituted to crack the case have been changed thrice since it was formed, triggering doubt over the sincerity of the authority to have the case cracked, layer by layer. The State police had formed SIT led by CBCID in-charge Shahjahan Ansari in April. On medical ground, Ansari was replaced with additional SP Mamta Vohra in May. The State police had changed the investigating officer again when SSP (IPS) at Police Headquarters Dr Sadanand Date was made the new IO of the case after Chief Minister Harish Rawat had rejected the state police’s recommendation for a CBI inquiry. SIT members failing to collect evidences to confirm the complicity of academy would make the case end with a whimper, observers say. It is likely that the charge- sheet to be filed in the court would contain some innocuous references to minor negligence on the part of the academy officials, the observer added.