Overview

• A bench of Justices MM Sundresh and N Kotiswar Singh refused to defer trial court proceedings on framing of charges in the land-for-jobs case.
• The court ruled that moving ahead with charge framing will not render his petition to quash the FIR in the Delhi High Court infructuous.
• Additional Solicitor General SV Raju urged the imposition of heavy costs for Yadav’s second attempt to stall proceedings, but the bench declined to award any.
• Yadav had sought a pause until August 12 when the Delhi High Court will hear his challenge to the CBI’s 2022 FIR filed under the Prevention of Corruption Act.
• The trial remains at the charge-framing stage following a June 7 CBI charge sheet naming Yadav, his family members and 77 others for alleged land-for-appointments quid pro quo during his 2004–09 railway ministry.