SC slams CBI for making scandalous allegations' against all courts in West Bengal

During a hearing of the West Bengal post-poll violence cases on Friday, the Supreme Court rapped the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for making "scandalous allegations" against courts in Bengal while seeking transfer of the trial in these cases out of the state.

The bench comprising Justices Abhay S Oka and Pankaj Mithal is learnt to have expressed strong criticism. Addressing the Additional Solicitor General (ASG), SV Raju, Justice Oka reportedly said: "Mr Raju, what kind of grounds are taken in this? That all courts in West Bengal have a hostile environment? Blanket averment that courts are illegally granting bail? This is casting aspersions that the entire judiciary is under a hostile environment."