New Delhi:
The government will move the Supreme Court tomorrow seeking a stay on the Gauhati High Court order terming CBI as unconstitutional.
"The Union of India will file a petition in the Supreme Court tomorrow which is likely to be heard on Monday," CBI Director Ranjit Sinha said.
The government is moving with urgency in the matter because it feels that the High Court order may create uncertainty over the functioning of the investigating agency.
V Narayanswamy, Minister of Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT), held a series of meetings with Mr Sinha and law officials after the High Court order, sources said.
Mr Sinha and his team even met Attorney General Goolam E Vahanvati after which the content of the petition was finalised, sources added.
Unfazed by the Gauhati High Court order, the CBI Director said, "It's business as usual for us and the order will have no bearing on the cases being handled by CBI."
When told that some of the accused, including those chargesheeted in the 2G telecom spectrum allocation case, had moved courts seeking quashing of proceedings against them citing the Gauhati High Court order, Mr Sinha said, "It's nothing and our legal team is capable of handling the issue."