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Chandigarh, August 20
The state government today filed a revision petition in the CBI special court in Mohali, challenging its July 23 orders disallowing the state’s request for a copy of the closure report filed by the agency.
The move comes days after Cabinet ministers and MLAs raised concern in party meetings over public resentment that the Congress government was doing little to act against Badals in the sacrilege cases.
In response to the petition, the Additional Sessions Judge-cum-Judge, Special Court, CBI, has issued a notice to the CBI to appear before him on August 29 in the matter, Advocate General Atul Nanda disclosed.
The Special Judicial Magistrate, CBI, had, on July 23, dismissed the state’s plea for a copy of the report.
It is the state’s contention that its application for the closure report copy was dismissed by the Special Judicial Magistrate in an arbitrary and unjust manner, Nanda said. He cited the revision petition to point out that the copy of the said closure report was not supplied to the government or police nor was any intimation given to them about the grounds on which the CBI had requested the court to close the said cases.
The state is entitled to the copy of the closure report and other relevant documents in order to challenge the CBI’s decision, said the AG.
In its plea, the state has asked the court to summon the record of the case, besides a direction that a copy of the closure report and all supporting material be supplied to the state. Pointing out that for about three years, the CBI gave no information about progress into the probe, the petition states, “The matter is highly emotive and had in the past led to widespread anger”.
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