CBI on Thursday sought permission of a special court to place on record several additional documents in a coal blocks allocation case allegedly involving Jharkhand Ispat Pvt Ltd (JIPL) and two of its directors.
CBI prosecutor filed an application under the provision of CrPC seeking to place on record certain additional documents, which are also being relied upon by them, besides copy of the statement of one of the prosecution witnesses.
The court asked the agency to supply the copy of its plea to the defence counsel and asked them to file their replies.
"Copy of the application has been supplied. The said application shall be decided separately upon furnishing of reply. Put up on April 20 for filing reply to the application under section 173(5) CrPC moved by CBI," Special CBI Judge Bharat Parashar said.
The court also disposed of a plea moved by accused R S Rungta, director of JIPL, seeking several documents from the agency.
During the arguments on the plea, the agency said they have no objection in supplying some of the documents sought by accused. However, it also told the court that some of the documents could only be inspected by the defence counsel in its office.
The court, however, clarified that no copy of any of the documents, if so inspected, shall be supplied to the accused without its prior permission.
The court had yesterday disposed of the plea of CBI on admission and denial of documents by the accused.
CBI, in its plea under section 294 of the CrPC (no formal proof of certain documents), had said that the accused may be called upon to admit or deny various documents to curtail the necessity of examining all prosecution witnesses.
