Alka Verma –
Published on August 27, 2021, at 11:40 IST
The Supreme Court of India directed for setting up special CBI courts, where over 100 cases to ensure easy accessibility to the witness and de-congestion of existing courts.
A three-judge bench comprising Chief Justice of India Justice N V Ramana, Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justice Surya Kant ordered the Central as well as State Government to provide necessary infrastructural facilities to the High Courts for the purposes of establishment of additional CBI Special Courts.
They expressed deep concern over the delayed trial of CBI cases against the present as well as former MPs and MLAs and called it a “Travesty of Justice”.
The Bench held,“There is an urgent need of rationalizing the establishment of special CBI courts, as it may not be humanly possible for one or two courts in a state to expedite all the trials or take up the same on a day-to-day basis in terms of Section 309 of the CrPC. The special CBI courts need to be set up in different parts of the state where more than 100 cases are pending.”
Without getting into much depth the Bench directly ordered CBI to take all the adequate steps to expedite the cases and secure the appearance of the accused.
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta assured the Court that he will take up the matter with the Director, CBI, for providing adequate manpower and infrastructure to the agency so that pending investigations can be completed at the earliest.
Further, the Bench stated that the Chief Justice of High Courts has been asked to form a Special Bench to monitor all these cases against the lawmakers of the Country.
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