The Supreme Court today refused to restrain CBI from filing charge sheet against former Telecom Minister Dayanidhi Maran in Aircel-Maxis deal case arising out of the investigation in the 2G spectrum allocation scam.

A bench headed by Justice H L Dattu said that the plea of Maran is premature and law does not allow it to restrain the agency from filing charge sheet againt him. The bench said that the former DMK MP can challenge the charge sheet after it is filed.

Maran's counsel submitted that CBI is proposing to file charge sheet despite the probe in the case still going on and once the charge sheet is placed before the trial court there will be stigma on his client.

The bench said that investigators in the case have favoured filing of charge sheet and even the highest Law officer in the country Attorney General endorsed it and it would be too premature to restrain the CBI.

Facing threat of being chargesheeted, Maran yesterday approached the Supreme Court for restraining CBI from filing
charge sheet against him.

In his plea, Maran alleged that CBI is proposing to file charge sheet out of political vendetta as the probe in the case is still not complete.