India, July 16 -- The Bombay high court on Tuesday stayed a probe initiated by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) against Tata Consulting Engineers (TCE) over alleged irregularities worth Rs.800 crore during dredging of the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Authority's (JNPA) navigational channels between 2003 and 2019.

The division bench of justices Ajey Gadkari and Rajesh Patil observed that the memo listing the items seized by the CBI also disclosed the password of the laptop owned by the then project director at TCE, Devdutt Bose, an accused in the case. This, according to the court, was in violation of provisions of the Information Technology Act.

"How can you do that? You have caused damage to someone and a number of people have seen i...