Justice R H Shukla today adjourned the hearing on the request of the CBI seeking time to file its reply.
The Judicial Magistrate First Class (JMFC) Geeta Ahir of Danta court on September 18 had held that her court has the competence to take cognisance of the chargesheet filed by the investigating agency on September 4.
CBI has named 20 people, including former minister of state for Home and Modi's aide Amit Shah, in its chargesheet.
The accused police officials had objected to the filing of the chargesheet in the Danta court instead of the special CBI court in Ahmedabad where the agency had filed the FIR in this case on April 29, 2011.
On September 21, Geetha Johri (Additional DGP), Rajkumara Pandian (suspended IPS officer), P C Pande (ex-DGP) and R K Patel (Dy SP and former Investigating Officer of Prajapati case) had filed separate petitions challenging Danta court's decision saying the chargesheet can only be filed in the CBI court in Ahmedabad.
Today another accused and former police officer O P Mathur, then ADGP of CID (Crime) also filed the similar petition against the lower court's order.
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