The Supreme Court on Monday said it will hear Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat’s plea challenging the High Court order directing a CBI probe against him in the last week of February.
A bench of Justice Ashok Bhushan and Justice R. Subhash Reddy heard the case today. Senior Counsel Kapil Sibal today said in the court that the state has not filed certain documents. The Court then directed that the matter be listed on a non-miscellaneous day in the last week of February. The Apex Court had earlier stayed the HC order.
Two journalists — Umesh Kumar Sharma and Shiv Prasad Semwal — had alleged that Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat and his associates had taken a bribe. Their report was then uploaded on a social media platform. In response, the government filed an FIR against them, upon which the journalists moved the Uttarakhand High Court to quash the FIR.
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Justice Ravindra Maithani of the Uttarakhand High Court had then directed the CBI to probe the allegations against CM Rawat.