Having failed to trace the missing documents and statement of witnesses in one of the 16 cases registered in the land scam, the agency told Special CBI Judge A K Mendiratta that the trial be proceeded on the basis of available documents.
The court dismissed the plea saying it is a "half-hearted attempt by the prosecution to bury the proceedings."
The judge said, "The court cannot be a mute spectator and a mere umpire to wait endlessly. The case clearly reflects malafide exercise whereby the crucial documents/ statements of the witnesses have been lost and not placed on record by the prosecution".
The case pertains to one of the 16 charge sheets filed by the CBI in different illegal allotments of 160 plots at Molarband phase II in June 2004.
There are a total of 64 witnesses and 237 documents in this case. The statement of only one witness and 230 documents, however, have been traced by the CBI. (More)