Chandigarh, Nov. 1 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court on Friday deferred hearing on a plea on seeking Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into alleged suicide ofHaryanaIGP Y Puran Kumar at his Sector 11 residence on October 7, asking the petitioner to apprise court on lapses in the probe, that warranted transfer of probe to the central agency.

During resumed hearing of the PIL filed on October 17, the bench of chief justice Sheel Nagu and justice Sanjiv Berry observed that CBI is already overburdened and that court can't "casually" pass orders to transfer the probe to CBI. "You have to point out some anomaly in the investigation. Some lapse," the bench observed amid demand for CBI probe by the petitioner referring to suicide by...