The agency told Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Navin Kumar Kashyap that it wants to withdraw the application filed on February 1, 2018.
"I want to know from the Congress -- is it agitated today and telling lie after lie because the BJP government's defence deals do not have any Quattrocchi "mama", Christian Michel uncle?", he said.
Earlier this year, the CBI had filed an appeal after a 13-year delay against the Delhi High Court decision quashing charges against all the accused.
CBI had filed an appeal on February 2 this year against the May 31, 2005 verdict of the Delhi High Court.
Congress leader Randeep Surjewala was referring to the Delhi High Court ruling of February 4, 2004, giving a clean chit to Rajiv Gandhi in the Rs 64-crore Bofors pay-off case.
The agency filed the appeal against the May 31, 2005 decision of the high court by which all the accused persons including Europe-based industrialists Hinduja brothers were discharged from the case.
During the last hearing on January 16, the bench had asked Agrawal to explain his locus in filing the appeal and satisfy it how could the matter be entertained at the instance of a third party.
According to CBI officials, the agency has sought permission to file a Special Leave Petition in the Supreme Court to reopen the case.
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