India, March 6 -- A Delhi court has criticised the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Delhi Police for their "lack of coordination" that resulted in failure to start an investigation in the alleged fake encounter of Manoj Vashisht inside a city restaurant in 2015.

Additional chief judicial magistrate Jyoti Maheshwari of the Rouse Avenue Court, in an order on Tuesday, said: "Prima facie, it seems to be a case of lack of coordination between the investigating agencies i.e. the Delhi Police and the CBI, because of which no action could be taken on the FIR till date."

The court's censure came in response to the agencies' failure to act upon an FIR lodged by the Uttar Pradesh Police in Baghpat in 2015, parallel to another case tha...