CBI court adjourns hearing in Bargari case to July 29

Mohali, July 20

A special CBI court here directed the state, complainant and accused to share the copies of replies filed by them with each other on the application filed by the CBI for restraining the SIT from probing the Bargari sacrilege case.

The Special Judicial Magistrate, CBI, GS Sekhon while adjourning the case to July 29, warned all counsels that “the party who will not argue the matter on the next date of hearing will be presumed to be not interested party and the court will proceed as per law.”

The reply filed by district attorneys Sanjiv Batra and RK Salwan assisted by Sarabit Singh, AIG, for Director Bureau of Investigation, Punjab, for the state alleged that the CBI had in an illegal and unjustified manner withheld the handing over of the case files. They prayed before the court that in view of the orders passed by the SC and the HC till date, the CBI had no jurisdiction over the present matter and had in an illegal and unjustified manner withheld the handing over of the files relating to the case. They submitted that the said actions of the CBI clearly amounted to contempt of the orders passed by the SC, HC and the state reserves its rights to take action with regard to the same. — TNS