A Delhi daily reported that Sinha has said that UPA government would have been happy had the encounter charge sheet mentioned close aide of BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, Amit Shah as the accused.
Shah was questioned twice in connection with the fake encounter by the agency but he was not named in the charge sheet as accused.
A CBI spokesperson issued a statement that he was quoted out of context and unfairly.
"Director CBI has been quoted unfairly and completely out of context. CBI is an impartial and an apolitical organisation. In the Ishrat Jahan case, CBI has done a fair investigation to the best of its ability," the statement said.
"It is a very important statement coming from the Director CBI. There was no prosecutable evidence even three years ago in Sohrabuddin's case. The CBI obliged Congress-led UPA in its attempt to target the Prime Ministerial candidate of the BJP, the Chief Minister of Gujarat by charging and targeting Amit Shah," BJP spokesperson Nirmala Sitharaman said.