Overview

• Chief Justice B. R. Gavai, with Justices K. Vinod Chandran and N. V. Anjaria, granted an interim stay on September 26 in the CBI director’s Special Leave Petition.
• The court orally observed there is no impropriety in the SIT assigning work to a subordinate officer when the CBI director oversees the investigation.
• The appeal challenges a High Court ruling that said the CBI director overreached Supreme Court directions by allowing J. Venkat Rao, not formally on the SIT, to act in the probe.
• Petitioner Kaduru Chinnappanna alleged coercion and videotaped, scripted statements by Rao, and the Chief Justice indicated such grievances should be pursued through a formal complaint.
• The respondent has been asked to file a counter, the SIT continues under court-monitored supervision, and the question of Rao’s role remains to be decided.