Samrite, who is facing a CBI probe for dragging Gandhi's name in the case, had submitted in his plea that the High Court had wrongly dismissed his petition by imposing exemplary costs of Rs 50 lakh.
He had insisted that his petition was maintainable and that the Division Bench of the High Court exceeded its jurisdiction by transferring the matter from a single bench to itself.
He had submitted before the apex court that the High Court had erroneously tagged his petition with another and had deprived him of his right to be heard. He had said the two petitions were different in nature and the names of persons in illegal confinement mentioned in them were different.
He had said the three persons, i.e, the girl and her parents produced before the High Court, were different from those mentioned in his petition.
The CBI had told the apex court that its probe has found that the case against Gandhi was based on “non-existent” claims.
