The Centre will move Supreme Court by Monday against the Gauhati High Court order holding as unconstitutional the setting up of CBI. In its judgement, the High Court has struck down the resolution through which the Central Bureau Investigation was set up and held all its actions as unconstitutional. Additional Solicitor General P P Malhotra told PTI in New Delhi that the judgement is patently wrong and is bound to be set aside.

A division bench comprising Justice Iqbal Ahamad Ansari and Indira Shah on Wednesday pronounced the verdict while hearing a plea filed by a BSNL employee. The petitioner questioned the existence of the CBI after the investigation agency filed a case against him in 2001. He approached the division bench after a Single Bench of the court rejected his plea.