The CBI has moved an application before a Delhi court seeking a direction to allow it to go for further probe into the Rs 64 crore Bofors payoff case, saying the agency had come across fresh material and evidence. The court has posted it for deliberations on the 17th of this month.<br/><br/>The probe agency had on Friday moved the Supreme Court challenging the Delhi High Court's 2005 verdict acquitting all accused in the case. The high court had discharged all accused, including Europe-based industrialists Hinduja brothers, from the pay-off case.<br/><br/>Meanwhile, the Congress on Saturday said that the move to pursue the Bofors pay off case was an attempt by the central government to gain cheap publicity ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. <br/><br/>AICC general secretary Ghulam Nabi Azad told reporters in New Delhi that the government had devised a new tactic, under which opposition leaders are harassed through various central agencies such as the CBI and the ED.