New Delhi:
The Supreme Court will on Thursday pronounce its verdict on a plea seeking review of its order quashing disproportionate assets case against former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati.
A bench of justices P Sathasivam and Dipak Misra, which had clarified that CBI is free to probe the BSP supremo during an earlier hearing on the case, is expected to pass an order clarifying the earlier judgement.
While reserving its verdict on May 1, the bench had said that the FIR in the case was quashed because the agency proceeded against her without properly understanding its orders which were confined to Taj Corridor case related to the release of Rs 17 crore by UP government allegedly without sanction. That judgement had not taken away CBI's power to proceed against her in a separate disproportionate assets case, the court had said.
The review petition was filed by Kamlesh Verma who was an intervener in the case filed by Mayawati in the Supreme Court for quashing the assets case against her.
Senior advocate Shanti Bhushan, appearing for Mr Verma, had pleaded with the court to pass order on review to bring accused to the book.
The Supreme Court had, on July 6, quashed the nine-year-long disproportionate assets case against Mayawati and had pulled up the CBI for exceeding its jurisdiction by lodging an FIR against her without any direction from it.