“Is this the stand of the CBI that everything should come to us?” the CJI asked senior advocate RS Cheema who is conducting trial in CBI cases as a special public prosecutor. “We also want to have the benefit of Delhi High Court orders passed in these cases,” the bench said.Senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi, appearing for a litigant, said the HC cannot be restrained from hearing appeals and the pleas seeking discharge in the cases. Lawyer Prashant Bhushan, appearing for NGO ‘Common Cause’, said the orders were passed to ensure that the trial does not get impeded by the accused by moving the high court against interlocutory orders passed by the trial court.The bench said since the orders were passed by a three-judge bench, let it be listed before a bench of the same strength in the week commencing January 15, 2025.The top court in 2014 quashed 214 coal blocks allocated by the Centre between 1993 and 2010 after taking note of the PILs and ordered a trial by a special CBI judge.
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