The Supreme Court today asked the Centre and CBI to file replies on a plea seeking to direct the government to take action on findings of Serious Fraud Investigation Office, SFIO which found “irregularities” in some business transactions after examining Niira Radia tapes.

A bench of justices G S Singhvi and V Gopala Gowda also asked former Tata chief, Ratan Tata who has filed a plea for not making public, tapped conversations of Radia, to file reply within a week.The matter was adjourned for December 2 for hearing of cases arising out of Radia's tapped conversation. Immediately after the order was passed and the matter was deferred, senior advocate Rajiv Dhawan, appearing for Open Magazine, strongly objected for deferment of hearing.
Taking exception to Dhawan's submission, Justice Singhvi recused himself from the case and said the matter be listed before another bench.

Dhawan pleaded that the court should hear the case today
itself and he be allowed to argue on behalf of the magazine
against Tata's petition but the court turned down his plea.