Zee Media Bureau
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued notice to CBI director Ranjit Sinha on a plea seeking his removal from the post and an SIT probe against him for allegedly protecting accused in coal scam.
The apex court has given a time of 10 days to Sinha to file a response and has posted the matter for further hearing on September 19.
Earlier, an NGO had moved the Supreme Court demanding Sinha's recusal from the coal block allocation scam probe.
In an application filed in the court, NGO, Common Cause, referred to reports about the entry register at the CBI director's residence containing names of "influential" persons allegedly involved in the coalgate scam.
It accused him of scuttling the probe in the "high magnitdue" cases in which 20 FIRs for offences of corruption, cheating, and criminal conspiracy have been lodged and two charge sheets placed in trial court.
The NGO alleged that the entry register, which it filed in a sealed envelope along with the application, suggest that influential people named in coal blocks scam, 2G cases and 4G scandal met Sinha and "many of the meetings were held late at night".
The application also referred to the apex court orders to keep the probe free from any interference and to the changing of the status reports of the probe at the instance of polictical executive.
With agency inputs
