The Supreme court on Wednesday directed the CBI to file fresh status report within four weeks on probe into the charges of ‘abuse of official position’ by former agency chief Ranjit Sinha and the progress made in over 50 coal scam cases.
A bench of Chief Justice S A Bobde and Deepak Gupta granted time to the agency after it sought time.
Sinha is accused of trying to impede the CBI’s investigation into the cases, which emerged in 2012 after a report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) was leaked to the media. The apex court dismissed the plea field by lawyer M L Sharma seeking a direction to the CBI to take coercive steps against Naveen Jindal, allegedly main beneficiary of coal scam cases.
