Complex sentence: Shadows Over India's Conscience "with nearly 3000 officers of the agency in the audience, Gandhi noted that" (The CBI) is seen as the government's hatchet, rather than honesty's ally.
Split into simpler sentences: Shadows Over India's Conscience "with nearly 3000 officers of the agency in the audience." It (CBI) is seen as the government's hatchet, rather than honesty's ally.