"Demanding something from the court by writing letter will set a wrong precedent as courts have their own procedures. File a petition as per the legal procedure," a division bench of the court comprising Chief Justice A M Khanvilkar and Justice Alok Aradhe said disposing of Singh's plea.
Singh had sent a letter to the court highlighting deficiencies in the investigation being conducted by a Special Investigation Team (SIT) constituted by the state government in the Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board scam and had sought a probe by the CBI. He wanted his letter to be treated as a petition.
He had also raised the issue of "conflict of interest" as Additional Advocate General Purshendra Kaurav, who had as a lawyer filed a petition on behalf of former ABVP leader V D Sharma in a case related to admissions in private medical colleges, was now defending the state and MPPEB. Sharma's case is still subjudice, Singh had said in his letter.
The MPPEB scam is related to manipulation of pre-medical test results and recruitment to various government services, including teachers, constables and food inspectors.
State's former technical education minister Laxmikant Sharma and several officials and students are under arrest in the case.
Congress had even accused Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan and his wife of complicity in the scam following which he filed a defamation case against Congress spokesman K K Mishra, who had made the allegations.