Chennai: The Supreme Court on Monday allowed the CBI to take over investigations for a suicide case of a 17-year-old woman in Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, and refused to disrupt the orders of the Madras High Court to submit an investigation into the central agent.
When the state government insisted that the order was passed by HC without providing the right hearing and requesting a permanent order, Judge Sanjiv Khanna and Bela M Trivedi asked the government not to make a prestige problem and submit evidence collected by the state police to the CBI, advocate Senior beat Rohatgi and P Wilson submitted that there is no need for CBI investigations in this case and it is not a political case where interference is needed.
They said that HC had passed orders that allowed the government and police to debate and state approval was not taken before ordering the CBI probe.
The advocates say that the country doesn’t even make a party in this case.
However, strong applications of the state government did not convince the court to keep HC orders.
The court, at the beginning of the trial, clarified that there were two aspects involved in this case – one related to the CBI probe and others regarding the observations passed by HC, and would hear the appeal of the state government on the second problem.
“Notification problems that can be returned in three weeks …
Meanwhile, investigations in terms of commands were revealed to continue,” Bench said.
Madras HC, on January 31, has transferred a lavanya suicide case, a 12th grade student who died on January 19, to the CBI.