Delhi HC extends stay on order having observations against CBI

The Delhi High Court today extended an interim stay on a trial court order directing CBI's Director to place before it an action taken report against an "erring official" who did not follow law in conducting searches in a graft case.
Justice Manmohan Singh extended the stay till March 23 after the agency's counsel Sonia Mathur contended that the special judge's order in the matter will harm the ongoing investigation.
She further said that the trial court judge's order passed on October 28, 2014 and November 10, 2014 be quashed.
To which, the court asked the CBI's counsel to provide him a copy of the order passed by the trial court.

It also directed the agency to give their submissions in written within two weeks.
"Put it for March 18 for further consideration. Interim order (stay) to continue," the court said.

CBI has approached the high court after the trial court had directed the agency's the then Director Ranjit Sinha to file a report by November 12, 2014 after he and CBI's other top officers did not to comply with a October 28, 2014 direction to furnish written explanations and file an action taken report against the agency's erring officials.
It had also directed CBI's concerned Superintendent of Police (SP) and Deputy Inspector General (DIG) to file their written submission, if any, on or before November 12, 2014 as to "why the matter be not proceeded against them for non- compliance of directions" issued by the court in October last year and also their "willful disobedience."

The court had on November 10 last year said that no appeal/revision of its October 28, 2014 order in this matter was filed in superior court nor any stay obtained.
The trial court's order had come on a case of alleged graft in which CBI had in October filed an FIR against unnamed officials of Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) and a private firm for alleged irregularities in supplying high-altitude tents to a covert unit of the external intelligence agency.