The judge posted the matter for argument to May 29 after the CBI sought time to file a reply to the bail pleas by Singh.
Sources said the governor won't be going to Chennai on Tuesday.
The official paid a premium of up to Rs 3 lakh annually on insurance policies bought in the name of his family members.
The court had earlier stayed the bail granted to the former bureaucrat on October 22, the day he was to be released.
A FIR registered by the CBI claimed that Major General Anand Kumar and his family members had six immovable properties worth a total Rs 5.33 crore in Delhi, Shimla and Gurgaon. The accused and his family members also had bank balances and fixed deposits to the tune of Rs 57.86 lakh and various other investments totalling Rs 1.21 crore.
Special Judge I K Kochhar sent Akhand Pratap Singh to the custody of the agency till October 8
The CBI had registered a case against him on March 22, 2005, and carried out searches at three places in Delhi, seven places in Lucknow, two places in Bahraich (UP) and four places in Nainital (Uttarakhand).
The Patna High Court on Wednesday reserved its order on the Bihar government's petition challenging the acquittal of Railway Minister Lalu Prasad and his wife Rabri Devi in a disproportionate assets case.
The Supreme Court on Friday termed as "unfortunate" and rued the "new trend" of maligning judges by governments if judicial pronouncements are not as per their liking.
The court also adjourned to March 14 bail plea of Nayak, held on charge of possessing assets disproportionate to his known sources of income.
The Bombay High Court has stayed Nayak's arrest until it hears his bail plea on Friday.
The counsel, while repeatedly harping on the arguments that courts have no power to order a CBI probe, suggested that a "via media solution" could be worked out by ordering a judicial inquiry into the "disproportionate" assets.
The remark came as Minister of State for Commerce Jairam Ramesh, who was concentrating on his reply during the Question Hour, said, "I thought the applause was for mango exports."
A full Bench comprising Justice R N Prasad, Justice Barin Ghosh and Justice M L Visa unanimously dismissed the petition.
"I had never seen so much of cash at one go," recalls former Central Bureau of Investigation director Joginder Singh during whose tenure the investigating agency had searched the house of former Union minister Sukhram, who was on Wednesday given a three-year jail term in a disproportionate assets case.
The CVC has submitted its opinion to the Supreme Court on whether or not former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati be prosecuted in the multi-crore Taj Heritage Corridor scam case on the basis of evidence gathered by Centr
Mayawati was questioned by sleuths of the Anti-Corruption unit of the agency at her official residence in New Delhi, CBI sources said.
The special court in Bangalore on Saturday issued the order for release of All India Anna Dravida Munetra Kazhagam supremo J Jayalalithaa from jail here in accordance with the Supreme Court order granting her bail in the disproportionate assets case.
The high court informed the government that it has completed the work on translating documents running into 17,000 pages from Tamil to English.
The State government had appealed against the Central Bureau of Investigation's court verdict after the CBI, which investigated the case, decided not to challenge the acquittal.
The Karnataka government on Tuesday said the court alone can decide on the shifting of All India Dravida Munetra Kazhagam supremo J Jayalalithaa to Tamil Nadu from a prison here where she is lodged after being convicted by a Special Court in the disproportionate assets case.
Lawyers for jailed All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam supremo J Jayalalithaa will move the Karnataka high court on Monday for bail for her while they were also finalising a strategy for seeking a stay on her conviction and sentence in the disproportionate assets case.
Anti-Corruption Bureau sleuths took encounter specialist Nayak.
The Bombay high court will deliver its verdict Wednesday on the anticipatory bail plea of suspended Sub-Inspector of police Daya Nayak, his wife Komal and associate Rajendra Padte who are fearing arrest in a disproportionate assets case.
However, the court of special CBI Judge S W Lepcha immediately granted bail to Bhandari after he furnished a personal bond of Rs 25,000.
Lalu Prasad and Rabri Devi were acquitted of all charges in a 7-year-old disproportionate assets case by Special CBI Judge Muni Lal Paswan.
CBI have registered a disproportionate assets case against Meena, an IRS officer of 1977 batch, and claimed to have recovered so far cash of Rs 16 lakh from his possession, sources said.
The December 1996 raid came following a complaint by BJP's Subramaniam Swamy naming late Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa.
The RJD and the family were tense about the verdict.
It asked the Karnataka high court to constitute a special court and appoint a public prosecutor for conducting the trial.
As per the Supreme Court order, the verdict on the petition had to be delivered before the court closes for the summer vacation from May 21.
Railway minister has no objection to Justice Alam being part of bench that will hear his petition challenging sanction for his prosecution in a disproportionate assets case.
This relates to the disproportionate assets case.
Nayak has been asked by the court to report to the investigating officers as and when required.
Singh was booked under IPC sections 124-A (sedition) and 153-A (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, place of birth, residence, language, etc) of the IPC at Raipur's City Kotwali police station late on Thursday night, Raipur Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Ajay Yadav said.
A bench comprising Justice N Santosh Hegde and Justice P P Naolekar issued notices to the state government and Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh.
P K Ajwani was wanted in connection with a disproportionate assets case.
The Local Arms branch of the Mumbai Police Wednesday obtained permission from a sessions court in Mumbai to question Daya Nayak regarding the use of bullets assigned to him while he was in service.
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