In a significant move, the Telangana government has withdrawn the general consent earlier given to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the State.
In a significant move, the Telangana government has withdrawn the general consent earlier given to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the State.
The government said that any consent hereon would be issued by the State government on a case-by-case basis.
With this, the CBI now needs to take the prior consent of the State government to conduct any investigation in Telangana.
This was informed by the Additional Advocate General (AAG) to the Telangana High Court during arguments on a petition filed by the BJP seeking a CBI probe into the TRS MLAs' alleged poaching case.
The government's Home (Special) Department had issued an order - G O Ms No 51 - on August 30 withdrawing all previous general consents issued by it under Section 6 of the Delhi Special Police Establishment Act, 1946, the AAG informed the court.
(While the consent was withdrawn a couple of months back, it became public only today.)
The development amid the BJP and the TRS indulging in a war of words over several issues in the recent past that has led to much acrimony between the two parties.