The Supreme Court on Friday refused to direct the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) not to go ahead with the investigation into the alleged attempt to poach four Bharat Rashtra Samithi MLAs into the Bharatiya Janata Party.
A division bench of the Supreme Court comprising Justice B R Gavai and Justice Manoj Mishra also turned down the request of the Telangana government to ask the CBI not to make any arrests in the case till the investigation was completed.
The Supreme Court said it would not like to prevent the CBI from investigating into the matter at this stage and posted the matter to February 27 for further hearing.
Senior advocate Dushyant Dave, who argued the case on behalf of the Telangana government, said transferring of the investigation to the CBI would not serve the end of the justice, as the investigation agency was under the control of the Central government headed by the BJP.
“When the First Information Report (FIR) registered by the Telangana had made allegations against the BJP members, how can the case be transferred to the CBI, which is under the control of the BJP-led central government?” Davi asked.
He said though the government had constituted a special investigation team (SIT) to probe into the case, the single judge of the state high court had quashed it.
Dave said there had been no progress in the investigation, after the petition was posted before the apex court.
“We have not been able to move an inch forward. The charges are so serious that it would strike at the foundation of democracy," he said.
