The Supreme Court has quashed a 'nine-year-long' disproportionate assets case against BSP Chief and former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati. The apex court also pulled up the CBI for initiating the probe against her without specific directions from it.

A Bench headed by Justice P Sathasivam clarified that the Supreme Court order pertained to initiating a probe against state government officials in the Taj Corridor scam and there was no such direction to lodge another FIR exclusively against Mayawati for allegedly amassing assets disproportionate to her known sources of income.

Law Minister Salman Khurshid has said the Supreme Court order quashing the disproportionate assets case against Ms. Mayawati should not be linked with any political development in the country.

Welcoming the Supreme Court order Ms. Mayawati thanked party workers for standing behind her for the past nine years without getting perturbed by opposition criticism.