Aircel-Maxis case: Supreme Court asks CBI to file status report of probe

BJP leader Subramanian Swamy told the bench that he has received a reply from CBI stating that it was probing “all angles”, including the FIPB clearance given to the deal allegedly by then Finance Minister P Chidambaram in 2006 New Delhi: The Supreme Court today asked the CBI to file a report detailing the status of probe being carried out on various aspects of the Aircel-Maxis deal case. During the brief hearing, BJP leader Subramanian Swamy told the bench that he has received a reply from CBI stating that it was probing “all angles”, including the Foreign Investment Promotion Board clearance given to the deal allegedly by then Finance Minister P Chidambaram in 2006. Swamy said the CBI should be asked to file a status report in the case, after which the bench asked Mehta to do the needful before the next date of hearing. He had referred to CBI charge sheet in Aircel-Maxis deal case and said that the agency had said that the Finance Minister was competent to give approval of upto Rs 600 crore.