The Delhi High Court today refused to grant any interim relief to CBI by staying a trial court order directing the agency's Director to place before it an action taken report against "erring officials" who did not follow law in conducting searches in a graft case.
Justice Sunita Gupta refused to pass interim orders saying she wanted to go through the file and directed CBI counsel Sonia Mathur to file affidavits explaining what she has to say.
The trial court had directed CBI Director Ranjit Sinha to file a report by November 12 after he and CBI's other top officers did not to comply with a October 28 direction to furnish written explanations and file an action taken report against the agency's erring officials.
It had also directed CBI's concerned Superintendent of Police (SP) and Deputy Inspector General (DIG) to file their written submission, if any, on or before November 12 as to "why the matter be not proceeded against them for non- compliance of directions" issued by the court on October 21 and October 28 orders and also their "willful disobedience."
The court had on November 10 said that no appeal/revision of its October 28 order in this matter was filed in superior court nor any stay obtained.
The trial court's order had come in a case of alleged graft in which CBI had in October filed an FIR against unnamed officials of Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) and a private firm for alleged irregularities in supplying high-altitude tents to a covert unit of the external intelligence agency.
According to CBI, an FIR in the case has been lodged against Sai Baba Builders and Consultants and its three directors Shyam Sunder Bhatter, J P N Singh and Manjari who is the wife of businessman S P Singh.
The case has been registered under IPC related to cheating, forgery and others and under sections of Prevention of Corruption Act.
It is related to alleged corruption in the supply of high altitude tents worth Rs 22 crore required by Special Frontier Force (SFF), a covert unit of RAW, operating during 2009-13.
