The Supreme Court today stayed the proceedings before special Ghaziabad CBI court in the Uttar Pradesh provident fund case in which names of judicial officers have cropped up. A bench comprising Justices D K Jain, V S Sirpurkar and G S Singhvi said, the proceedings before the Ghaziabad special CBI court will remain stayed. The order was passed after Attorney General G E Vahanvati said that there were some extremely disturbing circumstances that warrant immediate transfer of the case outside Uttar Pradesh, preferably to the national capital. He said that the plea in this regard has been pending before the court. The bench said that the plea will be considered but it will have to hear the response of the accused persons which included the judges.The court asked the Attorney General to place before it the names and addresses of all accused within one week so that notices could be issued on the CBI's plea for transfer of the case. Meanwhile, the CBI placed a fresh report before the court in which it said that there was no evidence against the 17 of the 41 judges alleged to be involved in the scam in which the provident fund of class III and IV employees to the tune of 20 crore rupees was siphoned off. It further said there was no sufficient prosecutable evidence against the remaining 24 judges.