The Supreme Court on Monday declined to intervene in the AP High Court’s separate orders directing CBI investigation into Jagathi Publications case and the Emaar-APIIC scam.

Crucially, the Central Bureau of Investigation submitted that its probe in the Emaar scam is covering all land allotments from the year 2000 onwards.

The statement of additional solicitor-general Harin Raval before a bench of Justices Dalveer Bhandari and Dipak Misra — which disposed of five petitions on these issues — assumes significance as it means that the CBI had also gone into the Emaar land deals during Mr N. Chandrababu Naidu’s tenure as chief minister.

The bench declined to interfere in the HC order on the special leave petitions filed by Emaar MGF Land Pvt Limited (in the Emaar case) and Jagathi Publications, saying that the CBI had even filed a chargesheet in some aspects of these cases. Therefore, there was no cause for any interference by the Supreme Court at this stage.

On the petition of Bheema Reddy Yella Reddy for extending the probe to the land allotments by the erstwhile TD government, headed by Mr Naidu, the top court pointed out that in view of the ASG’s statement that the CBI had already covered cases from 2000 onwards, there was no need for any further direction on the issue.