No officer probing coal block cases to be transferred without permission: SC

September 27, 2019 15:51

The Supreme Court on Friday reiterated that no investigating officer associated with the probe of coal block allocation scam cases would be transferred or repatriation to parent cadres without its permission.A bench headed by Justice Deepak Gupta, however, allowed a plea by some supervisory officers in ED and the Central Bureau of Investigation for repatriation to parent cadres. The court said that the officers shall be replaced by officers of the same rank.The court had, in July 2017, said officers of CBI and ED probing the cases cannot be transferred without its prior approval. -- ANI

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