India, Feb. 6 -- A special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court in Mumbai has pulled up the agency for repeated procedural lapses and rejected its plea to introduce 14 additional documents more than a decade after a Rs.244.81-crore Dena Bank fraud case's charge sheet was filed, holding that the prosecution cannot cite "inadvertence" to justify delay in production of evidence.

Special judge B.Y. Phad dismissed the application, observing that the CBI had failed to disclose critical details about the documents, including when they were collected, from whom they were seized, and which investigating officer had gathered them. In the absence of such particulars, the court held, the prosecution could not establish that the documents were...