AMN / NEW DELHI
The Supreme Court today expressed its unhappiness over the delay by CBI in completing the probe in the coal block allocation scam cases.
It observed that with this speed the investigation will never complete. The top court asked the probe agency to file a report giving status of its investigation in the pending cases and fixed the matter for hearing on the 9th of October.
The issue of pending investigation in coal scam cases cropped up before a three-judge bench headed by Justice Madan B Lokur, and comprising Justices Kurian Joseph and A K Sikri, when special public prosecutor R S Cheema sought court’s permission to relieve a senior officer from CBI so that he can join the Jammu and Kashmir Police as a DIG-level official.
The bench agreed to relieving the official from CBI. The apex court had earlier directed that no CBI officer, who is probing coal scam cases or officials from SIT probing allegations against the former CBI director, would be transferred without its prior permission.