The three-page application said, “Considering the reasons disclosed in the sealed cover, it would be in the interest of justice, if this court may be please to allow the present application permitting the CBI to add one more CBI officer to the present team of 39 officers.”
The matter pertaining to coal scam is likely to be taken up tomorrow and the bench is expected to go through the latest status report filed recently by CBI in a sealed envelope.
CBI had on October 22 filed its fresh status report which is expected to inform the court about 14th FIR which was filed recently against industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla, his company Hindalco and former coal secretary P C Parakh.