Aurangabad, Nov 21: The Bombay High Court on November 18 had rescheduled the hearing on a petition seeking a CBI probe into the multi-crore counterfeit stamps and stamp paper scam to November 21 following a request by the petitioner for an earlier date.
The hearing on the petition filed by local advocate Anantbhushan Kanade before the Aurangabad bench yesterday, was earlier posted to November 24.
A division bench of the Bombay High Court comprising Chief Justice C K Thakkar and Justice A B Naik today rescheduled the date of hearing.
Advocate Kanade in his petition has submitted that three states of Delhi, Andhra Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh had sought a CBI probe in this case after the tendering of the report by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) to the Bombay High Court recently.

The petitioner has contended in his petition that the SIT is an inquiry committee and could not be considered as an investigating agency.
The petitioner has further submitted that the CBI had proper infrastructure and, therefore, was the best agency to deal with such cases.

The petitioner has alleged that the Maharashtra government was trying to protect certain high ranking police officials as well as big politicians of the ruling coalition allegedly involved in the scam, because of which it (the government) was reluctant to hand over the investigations to an independent agency.
Bureau Report