The Supreme Court has issued a notice to CBI director on a plea seeking his removal and an SIT probe against him for allegedly protecting the accused in the coal scam.

The Supreme Court has asked Sinha to file a response in 10 days and posted the matter for further hearing on 19th September.

An NGO, whose PIL led to the declaration of 218 coal block allocations as illegal, moved the Supreme Court seeking the removal of Ranjit Sinha from his post of CBI director.

It had also asked the apex court to set up a Special investigation Team (SIT) to probe the abuse of authority committed by the CBI director to scuttle inquiries, investigations and prosecutions carried out by the agency in coal block allocation cases and other important cases .