CBI Special Public Prosecutor Ghaziabad Recruitment 2026

CBI Special Public Prosecutor Recruitment 2026: Overview

Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is empanelling advocates to prosecute the Lokpal-referred cases that are at trial before the Special Judge, CBI, Ghaziabad. The advertisement is issued by the agency's Policy Division at Kartavya Bhawan, New Delhi, and it covers only this court in western Uttar Pradesh, where a set of cases sent to CBI on references from the Lokpal — the ombudsman that examines corruption complaints against public servants — is now being heard. You would work as a Special Public Prosecutor on the panel, not as a salaried officer of the agency, so your own practice stays intact and you are paid a professional fee for the CBI briefs you conduct. Advocates who already run criminal and corruption trials in the Ghaziabad courts are the natural fit.

Service Conditions and Caveats

• Panel engagement: CBI is drawing up a panel of advocates for this court. Being on the panel means you prosecute the briefs the agency hands you; it does not make you a CBI employee, and no fixed quantum of work is promised.
• Tenure: the engagement runs for a minimum of three years — long trials change hands badly, so the agency wants a prosecutor who will see the cases through.
• Station requirement: you have to be stationed at the place where the court sits. CBI pays no travelling allowance and reimburses no travel expenses for attending the court, so an advocate commuting from Delhi or Meerut bears that cost out of pocket.
• Professional fee: what you are paid is fixed by the Department of Personnel and Training order in File No. 225/19/2023-AVD-II dated 8 April 2024, attached to the circular. There is no separately negotiated rate for individual advocates.
• Standard government terms: the application requires an unconditional consent to work on the general terms and conditions approved by the Government of India from time to time, which may be revised during your engagement.
• The work is corruption litigation: this panel is for trials under the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, and the circular makes prior experience of conducting such trials a mandatory pre-condition rather than an added advantage.

Application Submission Notes

Applications are accepted only through the online link shown against this advertisement on the CBI vacancies page. An application sent offline, or an incomplete one, is not considered at all, and the agency does not entertain anything that arrives after the closing date.

The prescribed proforma attached to the circular is detailed. It asks for your criminal-side record separated between the subordinate courts and the High Court, the number of criminal cases you have handled, the matters you appeared in for central and state government departments, the important cases in which you succeeded, and the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 trials still pending with you. There is also a column on whether you are already a panel lawyer, standing counsel or legal advisor to a government department. CBI calls only the shortlisted advocates for an interaction.

• Conduct the trial of Lokpal-referred CBI cases pending before the Special Judge, CBI, Ghaziabad
• Appear for the prosecution at every hearing of the cases entrusted by CBI
• Examine the prosecution witnesses and cross-examine the defence witnesses in court
• Argue the prosecution case, including matters under the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988
• Draft the applications, replies and written submissions filed for the prosecution
• Remain stationed at the court's city so that listed hearings are never missed