SC stays CBI probe into UP legislative council recruitment process
Hindustan TimesNEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday stayed a verdict of the Allahabad high court ordering a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation into the staff recruitment process at the Uttar Pradesh legislative council over alleged nepotism and favouritism in the selection process. The Supreme Court stayed the Allahabad high court verdict ordering a CBI probe into the UP legislative council recruitment A bench of justices Hrishikesh Roy and Sanjay Karol stayed the high court’s September 18 order on an appeal filed by the UP legislative council which said the high court converted an appeal filed by a group of unsuccessful candidates into a suo moto petition and passed orders without hearing the council. Senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi appearing for the UP legislative council told the top court that the high court failed to realise that the petition at the behest of unsuccessful candidates was not maintainable. The appeal, filed by the legislative council through advocate Ruchira Goel, cited the Supreme Court decisions that the CBI probe must only be ordered in exceptional circumstances and questioned the high court’s findings of nepotism, favouritism, fraud in the selection process and the manner by which the external agency was selected.