CBI Told To Submit Success Rate Data In Cases, Supreme Court To Evaluate

New Delhi:

Citing inordinate delay in instances being prosecuted by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), the Supreme Court docket has sought information on the company’s success charge in court docket instances and is prone to consider its efficiency.

The question on Friday comes after an enchantment was filed within the high court docket concerning a delay of 542 days by the premier investigation company in a case.

The Supreme Court docket has directed the CBI director to put earlier than it the variety of instances during which the company was profitable in getting accused convicted in trial, excessive courts.

It additionally sought to know the steps being taken by the central company Director to strengthen the division for authorized proceedings.

The highest court docket additionally enquired what number of trials are pending in decrease courts and excessive courts and the time length for a similar.

A two-judge bench of Justices SK Kaul and MM Sundresh noticed that it’s not sufficient for the company to merely register a case and examine, but additionally to make sure that the prosecution is carried out efficiently.

“We wish to have information concerning instances being dealt with by the CBI. What number of instances the CBI is prosecuting, time interval for which the instances are pending in trial courts and what’s the success charge of the CBI in trial courts and excessive courts. We wish to see what’s the success charge of the company,” the bench mentioned.

The highest court docket, in an earlier listening to, had noticed that there was “a saga of gross negligence within the efficiency of duties”, leading to inordinate delay in submitting instances within the courts and sought a response from the investigating company’s Director.

Extra Solicitor Common (ASG) Sanjay Jain, showing for the CBI, contended that in an adversarial litigation system like India, success charge in litigation must be thought-about simply one of many components in figuring out effectivity.

The SK Kaul-headed bench mentioned that the identical yardstick is adopted internationally and there was no cause that it shouldn’t be utilized to the CBI.