SC rejects ex-Maha home minister's plea to examine CBI report on him

The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to entertain former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh's plea for the court to examine CBI's preliminary inquiry report against him which allegedly granted him a clean chit.

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New Delhi: The court, however, allowed him the liberty to raise the issue before an appropriate court.

At the outset, senior advocate Kapil Sibal, appearing for Deshmukh, referred to former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh on whose plea a CBI probe was ordered against the former minister and said the court had passed the order placing confidence in him but the cop was himself absconding now.

A bench of Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and M M Sundresh said, It is very unfortunate for the institutions. It shows lack of faith in the system. The bench, thereafter, proceeded with the hearing and raised the question of how he could directly approach he apex under Article 32 jurisdiction.