Coal scam: Court pulls up CBI for trying to segregate cases

Court was anguished that CBI was seeking re-transfer of case against two government saying it was different from those being monitored by apex court.

Coal scam: Court pulls up CBI for trying to segregate cases
NEW DELHI: A special court today pulled up the CBI for trying to segregate one of the cases arising out of the coal block allocation scam to keep it away from being tried by it and seeking its transfer to a regular court.

The court was anguished that the CBI, which itself had got the case transferred to it from the regular court by citing a Supreme Court order, was seeking re-transfer of the case against two government officials on the ground that it was different from those being monitored by the apex court.

Special Judge Bharat Parashar said it was "strange" that despite relying on the Supreme Court's July 25 order on setting up of Special Court for coalgate, the CBI prosecutor and the investigating officer (IO) have not gone through it and were making distinction between the cases probed by its two wings--anti-corruption unit and economic offences wing.

The CBI, during the proceedings, later withdrew its application for transfer of the case from the Special Court to the regular court.

The judge expressed his displeasure that the CBI sought to make its own categorisation of the cases without consulting the apex-court appointed Special Public Prosecutor (SPP) R S Cheema, who has been authorised to examine documents relating to the scam.

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