The Telangana authorities on Tuesday moved the Supreme Courtroom difficult the state excessive court docket’s order transferring the investigation — right into a case associated to the alleged makes an attempt to poach 4 Bharat Rashtra Samithi lawmakers into the Bharatiya Janata Get together — to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) , an official aware about the event mentioned.
Senior advocate Dushyant Dave, showing for the Telangana authorities, who filed a petition within the Supreme Courtroom, talked about the identical earlier than a bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud, Justice P S Narasimha and Justice J B Pardiwala.
He delivered to the discover of the Supreme Courtroom {that a} particular investigation group of the state police was investigating the case pertaining to alleged poaching of 4 BRS MLAs into the BJP, “as a part of destabilising the state authorities”.
“The writ petition was filed first earlier than the only decide bench of the excessive court docket, which transferred the case to CBI. The federal government went to the division bench which on Monday mentioned that the petition was not maintainable and refused to grant safety. There’s a grave urgency. If the CBI enters the investigation, all the things will fail,” Dave mentioned.
The CJI requested Dave to say the matter once more on Wednesday in order that it may very well be listed and even with out mentioning, it might come up for listening to subsequent week.
Earlier within the day, advocate basic of the Telangana authorities B S Prasad approached the only decide bench of the state excessive court docket headed by justice B Vijaysen Reddy requesting that the judgement given by the division bench be saved in abeyance for 2 weeks.
The decide, nonetheless, requested the advocate basic to take permission from the chief justice of the excessive court docket for in search of a keep on the division bench order.
Justice Reddy mentioned there have been technical objections for granting keep on the order. “When the division bench refuses to grant such a reduction and even by not giving any liberty to the state to maneuver it earlier than a single decide, how can the only decide bench cope with it,” he requested.