New Delhi, March 18 -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Central government to file its response to a PIL seeking guidelines to the Central Bureau of Investigation and the Central Vigilance Commission to carry out investigations in cases in a time-bound manner.

The PIL was filed by Advocate Manish Pathak who flagged the issue of pendency of over 2500 cases with the CBI.

No counter reply has been filed on part of the CBI, Pathak told the Supreme Court today. Further, it was asserted by the petitioner that when mighty people come to power, the CBI acts accordingly.

This leads to the delay in the investigation of the many case especially if they are bound to be high profile with high and the mighty people from the politics or the bur...