The Supreme Court on Wednesday granted four weeks' time to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to file a status report on pending coal scam cases and progress into the probe relating to charges of abuse of official position by former CBI chief Ranjit Sinha, who allegedly tried to scuttle the probe in this regard.A Bench of Chief Justice SA Bobde and Justice Deepak Gupta granted time to the CBI after the agency sought four weeks to file a status report in the matter.The top court had earlier constituted an SIT, headed by former CBI special director ML Sharma, to look into the prima facie allegations against Sinha for trying to influence the probe in coal scam cases.Besides dealing with the SIT issue, the bench also dealt with other matters related to the case, including the status reports filed earlier by the CBI and the ED.The court has been perusing various status report filed by ED and CBI with regard to the investigation of the coal scam cases and their stages of the ...
