The Supreme Court refused to entertain a petition seeking to expedite the CBI probe into the alleged criminal activities of Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh.
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to entertain a petition filed by the Delhi Sikh Gurudwara Management Committee seeking to expedite the CBI probe into the alleged criminal activities of Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh.
A bench of Justices Arijit Pasayat and D K Jain refused to hear the petition on the ground that the Punjab & Haryana High Court was already dealing with the matter.
The petition referred to certain alleged criminal acts of the Dera chief who was recently in the thick of a controversy over his donning an attire resembling the revered Guru Gobind Singh.
On June 4, the bench had refused to entertain two seperate petitions seeking the apex court's intervention into the ongoing controversy relating to Dera Sacha Sauda saying the High Court was already seized of the matter.
"Since the matter is already being monitored by the High Court we are not inclined to interfere into it," a Bench comprising Justices Arijit Pasayat and D K Jain had said.
Accepting the reasoning of the court, Dera Sacha Sauda, preferred to withdraw the petition in which it had sought protection of its properties against an ultimatum given by the Akal Takht to vacate them and stop their activities across the country.
However, the court took objections to the averments made in another PIL on the controversy and termed it as "thoroughly misconceived".
The PIL filed by advocate Harvinder Kaur had sought protection to the lives and properties of both Sikhs and followers of the Dera Sacha Sauda cult and also sought a direction for restraining Dera's chief from wearing attire similar to Guru Gobind Singh.
The advocate had also complained about the alleged excess of the Border Security Force (BSF) personnel who were deployed to control the violence arising out of the Dera chief's "provocative" act.
But the apex court declined to pass any order forcing Kaur to withdraw her petition too.
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