CBI today filed an application before a Delhi court seeking closure of the Bofors pay off case against Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi.<br/><br/>In the plea filed before Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Kaveri Baweja, the probe agency said all efforts to extradite Quattrocchi for facing the trial in India have failed.The agency opposed the plea of advocate Ajay Agrawal,who had filed an application in his personal capacity pleading rejection of the closure report, on the ground that he has no locus standi to intervene in the matter.<br/><br/>Additional Solicitor General P P Malhotra said the court has limited role in deciding the application and the CBI's plea can only be turned down on the ground that it has been filed under extraneous considerations and the investigating agency has not applied its mind.Quattrocchi, the sole surviving accused in the two-decade-old case after the Delhi High Court quashed the charges on May 31, 2005 against other accused, has never appeared before any court in India.<br/><br/>CBI contended that the continued prosecution ofQuattrocchi was unjustified in the light of various factorsincluding the failed attempts to extradite him.<br/><br/>The arguments remained inconclusive and the courtposted the matter for further hearing on the 9th of this month when it<br/>will decide on the locus standi of Agrawal in the case.<br/>