The Supreme Court reprimanded the CBI for its request to move post-poll violence cases from West Bengal, instructing it to withdraw the petition. The court found the accusations of hostility towards courts in the state to be scandalous.

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday rapped the CBI for making "scandalous allegations" against the courts in its plea seeking transfer of cases relating to the 2021 post-post violence cases outside West Bengal. A bench of Justices Abhay S Oka and Pankaj Mithal said the agency cannot cast aspersions on the entire judiciary in West Bengal.

How can you cast aspersions on entire judiciary.You are showing as if there is a hostile environment in whole West Bengal, says top court.

The central agency had made the comments in a case concerning incidents of violence in the state after the 2021 Assembly polls.

In a stinging rebuke to the Central Bureau Investigation (CBI), the Supreme Court on Friday castigated the agency for filing a petition to transfer a case out o

The Supreme Court on Friday rebuked the Central Bureau of Investigation over the wording of a plea asking that cases related to violence after the 2021 Bengal election be heard outside the state.

The bench of justices Abhay Abhay S Oka and Pankaj Mithal observed that the agency cannot cast aspersions on the entire judiciary in West Bengal.