India, Feb. 17 -- The Calcutta high court on Monday criticised the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for not conducting a preliminary probe into allegations of financial irregularities in two public sector banks.

"The CBI doesn't want to work and is hence behaving like this. Has the CBI in West Bengal become like this?" a bench of justice Tirthankar Ghosh said on Monday..

The banks asked CBI to investigate the irregularities in March 2022 in line with the Reserve Bank of India guidelines since the amount of money involved in the alleged crime was more than Rs.6 crore. The bank told CBI that it suspected the involvement of some employees as well.

CBI, however, didn't register a regular case on the ground that the federal agency need...