New Delhi: The CBI assured the Supreme Court on Thursday that it would not file closure reports on its own in the trial court in the cases filed by it concerning the coal block allocation scam.
The CBI’s move came after NGO Common Cause alleged that the probe in the scam was not moving fairly and there were instances where without seeking opinion of the Central Vigilance Commission, the agency was filing closure reports in regular cases.
A bench headed by Chief Justice R.M. Lodha also took note that there were cases in which senior officials of the CBI have overruled the investigating officers after the preliminary enquiry on the issue of filing the regular cases and charge sheets.
It directed the CBI to place files relating to all preliminary enquires before the CVC to get the report of the two vigilance commissioners within six weeks. The bench said that it would later look into the issue of regular cases in which the CBI has expressed reservation for CVC opinion.
The CBI has contended that in regular cases, it cannot take the opinion of the CVC as it would be contrary to the Code of Criminal Procedure. The court, which posted July 8 as the next date of hearing, also asked the CBI and the ED to place before it by July 7 the status report on probe till June 30.
