NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has asked the CBI to continue with its probe into the disproportionate assets case against Mulayam Singh Yadav and Akhilesh Yadav.
The court also ordered investigations to continue against Mulayam's other son Prateek. However, the apex court dropped DA charges against Akhilesh's wife Dimple Yadav.
The Supreme Court had ordered the DA probe agianst Mulayam's family on March 1, 2007.
The court modified its 2007 order which had asked CBI to submit preliminary probe report to the Centre for further action.
The judges said it was an error to ask CBI to submit report to the Centre.
The court ordered CBI to proceed with the DA investigations against the Yadavs independently and take steps in accordance with the law.
The court had on February 17, 2011 reserved its verdict on Mulayam's plea for annulment of the order.
Mulayam in his plea had said he could not be made to suffer a CBI probe when he and his family members had regularly filed income tax returns. He had also said that the court had adopted a different stand -- "Supreme Court cannot be the ground for settling political battles" -- when it came to investigating identical charges against RJD leader Lalu Prasad.
On a petition filed by Vishwanath Chaturvedi, whom Mulayam accuses to be associated with rival Congress party, the court had on March 1, 2007 ordered the CBI to conduct a preliminary probe and surprisingly asked the agency to submit a probe report to the government for further action.
The probe was ordered against Mulayam, his sons Akhilesh and Prateek and his daughter-in-law Dimple. The Centre, after initially supporting the petitioner and taking a stand against Mulayam 's review petition, backed the SP leader's plea last year.
A bench of Justices Altamas Kabir and H L Dattu had reserved orders on the review petitions filed by Mulayam and his kin after hearing Chaturvedi's counsel and senior advocate K T S Tulsi, who criticized the Centre for its double standards and quoted the Centre's November 13, 2006 affidavit supporting the probe into the alleged illegal wealth of the Yadavs.
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