Justice Pratibha Rani issued a notice to the probe agency and asked it to reply by November 20, the next date of hearing.
The court, meanwhile, allowed the plea of the veteran leader that he be exempted from personal appearance before the special CBI judge who is hearing the case.
Nehru pleaded for reversal of the trial court order rejecting the closure report in the case.
Earlier, the lower court had rejected the probe report of CBI that the case against Nehru and two others be closed as nothing incriminating was found against them during the protracted probe. The special judge had rather issued summons against them for August 30.
It was alleged in the FIR that then minister of state for home Nehru along with B P Singhal, then additional secretary in the ministry, and then director A K Verma conspired and caused a loss of Rs 25 lakh to the exchequer in the pistol deal with Czechoslovakia in 1988.
The case dates back to 1985-86 when Singhal and Verma allegedly conspired with Nehru to execute the deal by ignoring the guidelines for conducting the evaluation of 9 mm pistols, to be procured for army.
The CBI allegedly found that a policy decision to replace .38 mm revolvers with 9 mm ones was taken on February 21, 1986, following which global tenders were invited. (More)
