The Supreme Court today pulled up the Centre for not establishing sufficient number of special CBI courts leading to delay in handling cases of corruption involving high profile politicians and public servants.

A Bench of Justices G S Singhvi and S J Mukhopadhaya said that number of cases handled by CBI is growing every year but the Centre is not providing adequate resources in terms of man power and establishing special courts to deal with them.

The bench said that there is need to set up at least 210 more special courts to deal with more than then 1,000 cases pending in different part of the country which are being handled by the agency.