The Supreme Court today sought a response from West Bengal government on a fresh plea of CBI that it needed more hands from the state police, including ten Superintendent of Police, to probe the multi-crore rupees chit-fund scam cases. A bench of justices T S Thakur and C Nagappan fixed the matter for hearing on July 27, also agreed to hear some applications filed in the Odisha chit-fund scam case on that day.<br/><br/>Solicitor General Ranjit Kumar and Additional Solicitor General Maninder Singh, appearing for the probe agency, said that as many as 971 cases have been registered, of which 464 matters related to non-Saradha chit-fund firms. At present, the chit-fund cases were spread over in various trial courts across the state and the CBI wanted three special courts in Kolkata to deal with them, the Solicitor General said. He also said the CBI needed police force, including ten SPs, from the state to efficiently probe the scam cases.<br/><br/>Senior advocate L Nageshwar Rao, appearing for West Bengal, said though the state police does not want to probe any chit fund cases, it may consider CBI's demand for more policemen for the investigation.