Supreme Court dismisses plea seeking PM affidavit on coal

"On this, all political parties are in line up," observed Justice Lodha as Saran told the court that all political formations in the country want to control CBI.

In another order, the court asked the CBI to file the next status report on its investigation into the criminality dimension on the allocation of coal blocks upto Dec 31 by Jan 10, 2014 and directed the listing of the matter on Jan 15.

The court allowed the investigating agency's plea to add one more investigating officer in its team probing the coal scam. At present, the investigating team has 39 officers.

The court modified its earlier order and permitted the investigating agency to share its investigation report with its two in-house legal representatives before the status report is submitted to the court.