India, April 28 -- The Bombay high court recently disposed of a petition challenging the transfer of investigation of a case against Girish Mahajan, a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and state rural development minister, to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). However, the CBI already filed a closure report in 2023, so the court on Wednesday directed the petitioner to file appropriate proceedings before the trial court and contest the same.

The petition, filed by Vijay Bhaskarrao Patil, a director of the Jalgaon Jilka Maratha Vidya Prasarak Sahakari Samaj, an educational society, is related to a 2020 case against Mahajan and 28 others on charges of causing grievous hurt to extract a confession, kidnapping, extortion, theft, cri...