India, March 19 -- The Bombay high court on Tuesday dismissed a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking an investigation into the allegedly fake bank guarantees furnished by Megha Engineering & Infrastructures Ltd (MEIL) for a Rs.16,600-crore contract for the Thane-Borivali twin tunnels project.

A division bench of chief justice Alok Aradhe and justice Bharati Dangre ruled that the petitioner, investigative journalist Ravi Prakash Velicheti, had not approached the court with clean intentions. It found the petitioner guilty of suppressing facts, stating that he had not disclosed the details of previous litigation pending between the parties.

The bench also agreed with the defendants' claim that a tweet posted by Velicheti last month aft...