The Supreme Court today ordered to continue CBI probe against Mulayam Singh Yadav and his son Akhilesh in disproportionate assets case. But it,however, dropped probe against Akhilesh Yadav's wife Dimple. A bench of Chief Justice Altamas Kabir and Justice HL Dattu, which had reserved its order on February 17th last year, pronounced the verdict on review petition filed by Yadav, his sons Akhilesh and Prateek and daughter-in-law, Dimple. It directed the investigating agency to file status report in the case before the apex court and to the government. The Supreme Court said that CBI is independent from the government and can continue with the probe as per the law.

Earlier, the apex court had ordered a CBI inquiry on March 1st, 2007 into the alleged accumulation of isproportionate assets by Yadav family.It was done on a PIL by an advocate, Vishwanath Chaturvedi. Deviating from the precedent of hearing review petitions in the judges' chambers, the bench had heard the petition in open court at Yadavs' request.