Supreme Court nod for CBI probe into Bulandshahar gangrape case
Bench had stayed the probe on the ground that it was being conducted by the UP police.
New Delhi: The Supreme Court which on August 29 had stayed the probe into the Bulandshahar gangrape incident on Thursday asked the CBI to continue its probe and complete the same expeditiously.
On August 29, a bench of Justices Dipak Misra and C. Nagappan had stayed the probe on the ground that it was being conducted by the UP police.
On Thursday, the CBI moved an application for vacating the stay pointing out that when the stay order was passed the probe had already been transferred to it by the Allahabad High Court and it could not proceed in view of the stay.
Accepting the submissions made by the Additional Solicitor-General Maninder Singh in this regard for the CBI, the Supreme Court bench modified the August 29 order and said the CBI can continue its probe which it had started from August 18.