MUMBAI, Feb. 6 -- A special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court in Mumbai has pulled up the agency for repeated procedural lapses and rejected its plea to introduce 14 additional documents more than a decade after a Rs.244.81-crore Dena Bank fraud case's charge sheet was filed, holding that the prosecution cannot cite "inadvertence" to justify delay in production of evidence. Special judge B.Y. Phad dismissed the application, observing that the CBI had failed to disclose critical details about the documents, including when they were collected, from whom they were seized, and which investigating officer had gathered them. In the absence of such particulars, the court held, the prosecution could not establish that the documents were part of the original investigation and were omitted by mistake. Allowing the documents to be introduced at the current stage-when prosecution witnesses are already under examination-would prejudice the accused and violate their right to a fair trial, the court said. The case stems from a CBI probe registered in 2014 following a complaint by the zonal manager of Dena Bank, alleging a fraud of Rs.244.81 crore. Several accused have since been chargesheeted, and the trial is presently underway before the special court. Subsequently, the agency had filed a charge sheet in 2015. The CBI had sought permission to place 14 additional documents on record, claiming they had been shown to a prosecution witness during the investigation but were inadvertently not annexed to the original charge sheet. The agency argued that there was no legal bar to producing additional documents after filing a charge sheet and relied on Supreme Court rulings permitting supplementary evidence. A comparable request had been rejected in 2022. Despite this, the present application was filed years later, the court noted....