SC seeks status report from CBI, ED on investigation in coal scam cases

Top court bench says it needs to go through the case files and listed the matter for hearing on October 27.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked two investigation agencies to give it a status report on their investigation of the coal block allocation scam cases.

The court said it would take a practical view on the repatriation of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and Enforcement Directorate (ED) officers investigating their cases to their parent departments.

A bench of justices Deepak Gupta and Aniruddha Bose said it needed to go through the case files as it was a new bench dealing with the matter and listed it for hearing on October 27.

The bench said it would also like to have the assistance of