103.8 kg out of 400.47 kg of gold seized by CBI is missing The Madras High Court on Friday ordered a Crime Branch-Criminal Investigation Department (CB-CID) probe into missing 103.864 kg out of 400.47 kg of gold seized by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) from an importer in 2012.
Justice P.N. Prakash rejected CBI Special Public Prosecutor K. Srinivasan’s argument that the prestige of the Central agency would come down if the case related to the missing gold was handed over to the State police.
“This court cannot subscribe to this view because the law does not sanction such an inference. All police personnel have to be trustedand it does not lie in the mouth of one to say that the CBI have special horns whereas the local police have only a tail,” the judge said.