High court suggests approach SC on JD transfer issue

A private petition has been filed in the High Court by an advocate, who appeals it to order the government not to relieve the CBI Joint Director Lakshmi Narayana. The court which take-up the petition yesterday has asked the petitioner to file a supplementary affidavit stating whether the transfer issue can be taken-up by the court or not. It also suggest the petitioner to approach either Supreme Court or New Delhi high court in this regard.

This indicates that the court doesn’t wants to interfere in this routine process of the transfer of CBI officer, unless it believes there is proper reason and clause for it. CBI JD Lakshmi Narayana has returns to his home cadre in Maharashtra on 11th June as his deputation period in the state was over on June 10th. All the cases that he is handling so far will be handed over to Arunachalam, the CBI JD of Chennai, who is currently at Netherlands on some case.

Lakshmi Narayana said investigation on Jagan Mohan Reddy’s cases has almost completed and hence his transfer will not effect the case anyway, come whoever takes-up the case.