Hansi (Haryana) [India], September 4 (ANI): Expressing dissatisfaction over the probe by the Goa Police into the death case of BJP leader Sonali Phogat, her family will approach the Goa High Court demanding a Central Bureau of Investigation probe into the matter.

Mumbai Oct 28 PTI The Maharashtra government told the Bombay High Court on Thursday that despite the matter pending before the court the Central Bureau of Investigation CBI had been issuing summonses to its officers in connection with the agencys probe against former state home minister Anil Deshmukh for his alleged involvement in corruptionSenior counsel Darius Khambata who appeared for the Maharashtra government said the CBI was doing so in order to demoralise the state police and government officialsThey CBI continue to issue summons to my officers It is an attempt to demoralise police force and my state officers These are police officers No coercive should be taken We need protection Khambata saidKhambata was arguing on a plea that the state government has filed challenging the CBI summonses issued to Maharashtra chief secretary Sitaram Kunte and DGP Sanjay Pandey asking them to report to the central agency in New Delhi for answering questions related to Deshmukh who resigned from the cabinet in April this yearThe Maharashtra government has also sought a stay on Subodh Jaiswals appointment as CBI Director A 1985-batch Indian Police Service IPS officer of Maharashtra cadre Jaiswal had earlier served as state DGP and was appointed CBI Director in May this yearOn Thursday Khambata told HC that the CBI had been investigating the case since April or May this year but had waited until now when the court was hearing the plea to begin summoning its officersInvestigation has been going on since April or May While the matter is being argued before the court all of a sudden they have sprung into action and started issuing summons Khambata saidHe said the central agency had called Pandey even though he was not connected to the caseSummons are being issued to everyone starting from the DGP Pandey who was not even there at the relevant time Notice has been issued to him also Chief secretary also has been issued summons added KhambataAdditional solicitor general Aman Lekhi who appeared for the CBI said he could not make any statement on the protection sought by the state for its officersLekhi however told the HC that the summonses issued to Kunte Pandey and some others in September this year had lapsedThe CBI counsel told the court the agency will issue fresh orders of appearance to them but that it will not call them for questioning until November 18 till after the next day of hearingLekhi however pointed out that the petition had been filed by the state and not by the persons against whom the summonses had been issued If they are aggrieved then they can come to the court Lekhi saidThe HC however said it did not wish to go into the merits of the matter at the present stage and posted the petition for further hearing on November 17During the previous hearing the state government had sought a probe by an independent committee headed by a retired judge and opposed the CBI probe saying Jaiswal was a potential subject of CBI investigationThe CBI is probing allegations of corruption made by former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh against Deshmukh a senior leader of the NCP which is part of the Shiv Sena-led MVA government in the stateFollowing an order of the Bombay High Court on April 5 2021 the CBI conducted a preliminary inquiry into the allegations made by Singh against Deshmukh and later registered an FIR PTI AYA RSY RSY

Mumbai Sep 21 PTI The Bombay High Court on Tuesday issued a notice to the Central Bureau of Investigation CBI and directed it to file a reply to the bail plea of Virendrasingh Tawade a prime accused in the 2013 case of killing of rationalist Narendra Dabholkar in PuneA bench of Justices SS Shinde and NJ Jamadar directed the CBI to file its reply within two weeksThe central agency had arrested Tawade in 2016 and said in its charge-sheet that he was one of the masterminds of the conspiracy to kill the rationalistTawade lodged in Punes Yerwada Jail under judicial custody approached the HC for bail earlier this yearLast week a special court in Pune framed charges against Tawade and three co-accused for the offence of murder under the IPC and relevant provisions of the Unlawful Activities Prevention ActThe fifth accused in the case Sanjeev Punalekar faces charges under IPC section 201 causing disappearance of the evidence or giving false inform to screen offenderThe HC will hear the bail plea further on October 13Dabholkar who headed the Maharashtra Andhashraddha Nirmoolan Samiti an anti-superstition outfit was shot dead in Pune on August 20 2013 PTI AYA RSY RSY

New Delhi [India], August 17 (ANI): Supreme Court on Tuesday, adjourned the matter for August 25, the appeal filed by the key accused, Anup Majee and also Mamata Banerjee government against the Calcutta High Court's order sanctioning CBI probe into the illegal coal mining scam 'without the state's consent.'