Click to play videoNew Delhi: Narendra Modi's smile may just have got broader. The Centre's request for a CBI probe into the Sohrabuddin case has been turned down by the apex court.
The court order is seen as a slap on the face of the Centre and it has come as a huge breather for Modi Government. But the relief for the Gujarat Government stops there.
"The most important direction that the Supreme Court has given today is that Geeta Johri will continue with the investigation," Ejaz Maqbool, the lawyer for Sohrabuddin's brother Rubabuddin Sheikh, said.
The court said investigating officer Geeta Johri will have all the freedom to complete her independent investigation in the case and she will not take any directions form the Gujarat DGP. Johri has been asked to submit the final report in the case by July 3.
The Supreme Court's no to a CBI inquiry in the case may have come as a breather for the Gujarat Government, but the court's decision to monitor the case has ensured that it does not get the space it would have liked.
As for the Congress, the court order denied it an advantage it had hoped for in an election year.
A CBI probe would have been politically beneficial for the Congress as the Central agency may have looked closely at the role of the politicians and found out if they had anything to do with the elimination of the Sohrabuddin couple.
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