Senior Advocates Kapil Sibal, Abhishek Manu Singhvi and Harish Salve today appeared in the Narada sting case in the Supreme Court..The three senior lawyers argued before a Bench of Chief Justice JS Khehar and Justices DY Chandrachud and SK Kaul, which refused to interfere with the CBI inquiry directed by the Calcutta High Court..While Sibal and Singhvi appeared for ministers from Trinamool Congress, Salve appeared for the respondents..Sibal and Singhvi sought for an investigation by a body other than CBI. Former Union Law Minister Sibal demanded,.“Constitute an SIT or any similar body. Why only CBI? We are not shying away from a probe. But why should CBI investigate?”.The Court, however, refused to interfere with the CBI probe ordered by the High Court..It has, however, ordered that the CBI investigation shall be unfettered by the adverse observations made by the High Court in paragraphs 65 to 68 of its judgment..The Court also modified the High Court judgment to the extent of the time provided to the CBI to complete the investigation. It has now allowed the CBI one month to complete the probe..Interestingly, the counsel appearing for West Bengal had to apologise to the Court for certain submissions made in the SLP alleging bias on the part of the High Court judges who had heard the matter.
Senior Advocates Kapil Sibal, Abhishek Manu Singhvi and Harish Salve today appeared in the Narada sting case in the Supreme Court..The three senior lawyers argued before a Bench of Chief Justice JS Khehar and Justices DY Chandrachud and SK Kaul, which refused to interfere with the CBI inquiry directed by the Calcutta High Court..While Sibal and Singhvi appeared for ministers from Trinamool Congress, Salve appeared for the respondents..Sibal and Singhvi sought for an investigation by a body other than CBI. Former Union Law Minister Sibal demanded,.“Constitute an SIT or any similar body. Why only CBI? We are not shying away from a probe. But why should CBI investigate?”.The Court, however, refused to interfere with the CBI probe ordered by the High Court..It has, however, ordered that the CBI investigation shall be unfettered by the adverse observations made by the High Court in paragraphs 65 to 68 of its judgment..The Court also modified the High Court judgment to the extent of the time provided to the CBI to complete the investigation. It has now allowed the CBI one month to complete the probe..Interestingly, the counsel appearing for West Bengal had to apologise to the Court for certain submissions made in the SLP alleging bias on the part of the High Court judges who had heard the matter.
