After changing its stand repeatedly in the disproportionate assets case against Mulayam Singh Yadav, the CBI on Tuesday asked the Supreme Court to allow it to ignore the legal opinion given by the Solicitor General of India on November 21 last year.

Solicitor General G E Vahanvati had opined that there was no case made out against Mulayam and his family members including son, Akhilesh Singh Yadav.

The CBI placed an affidavit before the bench headed by Justice Altamas Kabir, saying that it wanted to revert to its original status report, which is yet to be placed before the court. “It is submitted that the CBI stands by its recommendations made in the status report of October 26, 2007 as informed to this Court in Application No. 12,” the affidavit said.

Following the Solicitor General’s opinion, the CBI had sought to withdraw this application last year.

The CBI in its affidavit submitted that after the court ordered it to investigate the allegations against Mulayam on March 1, 2007 the agency prepared a status report same year based on the findings of its preliminary inquiry. Following this, an application was filed seeking the court’s nod to proceed against the Samajwadi Party chief and his kin, and submit the report to the court instead of the Centre.

However, in view of representations from Dimple Yadav (wife of Akhilesh and a respondent in the case), the CBI “referred the matter for legal opinion of a high ranking law officer of the Government of India”, the affidavit added.

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